Forum Duration

by simona7 March 18th 2010, 1:40 am

Hi,
My forum is taking off, now considering going bigger. I would like to know what guarantees Forumotion gives in regard to the duration of forums. I searched for an answer and found this old discussion now been locked:

user wrote: How long my forum will exist?

Bling wrote:
As long as you keep appropriate content in it

kirk wrote: correct. and as long as forumotion don't plan on going anywhere.
Which i don't see them going anywhere for a long time.

Can you explain what do you mean 'going anywhere'? Is it in Forumotion site being shut down?

Also, if Forumotion is shut down, for whatever reason, what would happen to my forum? just cease to exist? do I get a warning?

I know I am not allowed to export my forum database else where (as in to a different host) which is fine but in case of Forumotion shutting down would I be able to continue my forum activity somewhere else?

or export the database? to a new host or even to my own website (if I create one to support the otherwise 'dead' forum...)?

If not what will happen to my forum data base?

thanks for your time

simo

by MrMario March 18th 2010, 5:29 pm

Good questions but there is no answer to those as Forumotion isn't shutting down anytime soon. As long as you keep your forum with activity it will remain here.

by simona7 March 21st 2010, 1:39 am

Hi MrMario, thanks for your time.

Ok, must leave it at that I suppose but thanks for reassuring.

cheers

simo

by Darren1 March 21st 2010, 1:47 am

Hello,

According to Typlo, if forumotion were to ever go away, they would allow users' to export their DB's and upload them on other hosts' Wink

But that isn't likely to happen for a very long time, so don't worry about it for now Wink

by simona7 March 21st 2010, 3:29 am

Hi Darren1,

Thanks for that Very Happy

sounds great.

Pardon my ignorance but who's Typlo? Embarassed

by Darren1 March 21st 2010, 5:01 am

There's no ignorance, you simply just don't know who he is.

Typlo is our ONLY lesion to the company, which is French, and also an admin here.
Typlo's profile