01-02-2021, 06:20 PM
I have been doing some housekeeping on the Forum today and something arose in my mind : How long has AHRDF been around ? How useful is it ?
The AHRDF.NET domain name was registered on 8 July 2017 and activated within a matter of a day or so later. It next has an expiry of 8 July 2022, and then is subject to continuing renewal. Do the sums : we are now about 3 1/2 years into a 5 year name registration.
The basic use info as at today (1st Feb 2020) is :
Our members have made a total of 4,075 posts in 823 threads.
We currently have 543 members registered.
and
391 users since last 24 hours (19 members 0 of whom are invisible and 372 guests).
Its actual usefulness in view of the growing use of Facebook, and its ilk, is an unknown quantity. Not that there are any plans to discontinue the Forum in the near future...
Not many people are actively posting so it becomes hard to gauge its usefulness.
Actual Member visitor numbers are probably averaging about 20 per day, some days more and some less.
It may be confusing what the "391 users since last 24 hours (19 members 0 of whom are invisible and 372 guests)." really means : the 372 visitors are the likes of search engines (/bots), casual (unregistered) visitors, and the continuing - and growing - list of would-be hackers. Every day, there are a number of attempts to hack the Forum, and while it could be done by someone clever enough, the only some-what valuable details held are the users' callsigns, their email address and their last IP address. So probably nothing valuable enough to make it worth-while a significant effort. { I might add that not even administrators can read users' passwords. } Any forum package security updates are applied immediately on their release thus minimising the risks - this is important to maintain a stable Forum.
Full daily backups are auto-downloaded from the datacentre-based web server, with an additional data backup made late in the day and downloaded automatically. All in the interests of maintaining a quality service to you - the Forum members/users.
Back to work now...
73 Doug, admin
Now a late PS : AHRDF.net was a follow-on from OzLogger.com started 5th September 2016 !
The AHRDF.NET domain name was registered on 8 July 2017 and activated within a matter of a day or so later. It next has an expiry of 8 July 2022, and then is subject to continuing renewal. Do the sums : we are now about 3 1/2 years into a 5 year name registration.
The basic use info as at today (1st Feb 2020) is :
Our members have made a total of 4,075 posts in 823 threads.
We currently have 543 members registered.
and
391 users since last 24 hours (19 members 0 of whom are invisible and 372 guests).
Its actual usefulness in view of the growing use of Facebook, and its ilk, is an unknown quantity. Not that there are any plans to discontinue the Forum in the near future...
Not many people are actively posting so it becomes hard to gauge its usefulness.
Actual Member visitor numbers are probably averaging about 20 per day, some days more and some less.
It may be confusing what the "391 users since last 24 hours (19 members 0 of whom are invisible and 372 guests)." really means : the 372 visitors are the likes of search engines (/bots), casual (unregistered) visitors, and the continuing - and growing - list of would-be hackers. Every day, there are a number of attempts to hack the Forum, and while it could be done by someone clever enough, the only some-what valuable details held are the users' callsigns, their email address and their last IP address. So probably nothing valuable enough to make it worth-while a significant effort. { I might add that not even administrators can read users' passwords. } Any forum package security updates are applied immediately on their release thus minimising the risks - this is important to maintain a stable Forum.
Full daily backups are auto-downloaded from the datacentre-based web server, with an additional data backup made late in the day and downloaded automatically. All in the interests of maintaining a quality service to you - the Forum members/users.
Back to work now...
73 Doug, admin
Now a late PS : AHRDF.net was a follow-on from OzLogger.com started 5th September 2016 !
Doug VK4ADC @ QG62LG51
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This Forum is only going to be as interesting as the posts it contains.
If you have a comment or question, post it as it may trigger or answer the query in someone else's mind.