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Comments in the Photo Albums

In the last couple of months, there has been a flood of spam messages in the photo albums.  I have cleaned them up and Bobby has offered to keep an eye on them for me.  Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
To reduce the amount of comment spam, I have decided to only allow [...]

The amount of spam that I have been getting on the website’s email address has increased to hundreds per day, so I have decided to retire the contact (at) commando.org email address. Anyone who has contacted me in the past has my real email address and that will continue to work. For others, simply go [...]

FAQ Page Added

We get tons of emails for the site and it gets hard to answer them all at times. Many of the emails are the same questions, so to make things a bit easier, I have added a Frequently Asked Questions page to the site. If you can think of any questions that should be added, [...]

New Site Design

If you’ve been here before, you’ll quickly notice that I have radically redesigned the site. It used to be that the site was created using MoveableType, but the install was outdated and it wasn’t very easy to upgrade. I use Wordpress for most of my other sites and it makes it so much easier to [...]

Server Crash

The server crashed hard yesterday and I spent most of the night scavenging parts from other computers to get it running again. Everything seems to be working again except for some minor style problems in the photo albums, but expect some short downtime in the coming weeks as I move to a more reliable [...]

Forum Upgrade

I have finally got off my lazy ass and upgraded the forums to a newer version. Some of you might have seen it closed today, or with default templates, sorry for the hassle.
I did this so that I could enable more advanced new-user confirmation when registering to prevent spam accounts. You need an account to [...]

Comments Disabled

The site has been hit really hard by spammers trying to enter comments on these posts and it was causing the site to be unresponsive. Since most of the discussion on this site is through the forums, I have decided to disable comments from now on. The spammers can take their spam and [...]

ISP Transfer

If you’ve tried to access the site recently or tried to send email in the last week, you will already know that the server has been offline. My ISP was cut-off by Bell last week. I quickly got on with a new ISP, but Bell had to follow procedure and disconnect my line, [...]

Server Down

All of our websites were offline from about 6pm Monday until late Tuesday night. Our ISP was cut off by Bell Canada over a legal dispute and are now piggy-backing off of another ISP. I am seriously thinking of switching to another ISP, so the websites and email may go offline again in [...]

Forums back up

A database upgrade last night went horribly wrong and required many hours of fixing and updating. Luckily it looks like no data was lost and the forums are back online.

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