"Google Adsense and Facebook were born and grew, many of our old advertisers migrated to those platforms"
"This past summer ... Our main database server failed ... We pay the host for a full backup system, which they knew, so they disposed of the failed hard drive and instituted the backup recovery. This is when we found out that the backup system was never functional. For a decade."
"I had to make the hard decision to retire our forums."
"Google Adsense and Facebook were born and grew, many of our old advertisers migrated to those platforms"
"This past summer ... Our main database server failed ... We pay the host for a full backup system, which they knew, so they disposed of the failed hard drive and instituted the backup recovery. This is when we found out that the backup system was never functional. For a decade."
"I had to make the hard decision to retire our forums."
http://coffeegeek.com/opinions/markprince/10-29-2020