For the longest time ever (Since I was 15), I have run the site Gaming World. The sites been through its up and downs, and currently in its down point (No site, just forums, slow server, lots of downtime) I decided to finally do something about one point

Then last night, I read this topic and I decided to make some changes. I sat down, and researched what I needed for the forums to function correctly, how to fix everything long term and got going.  I did my calling, my ordering, and wrote some notes to the staff and went to sleep.

Woke up this morning, and immediately got going. Shut down the GW Forums, and went to work. Backed up, uploaded, modified config files, and within 2 hours we were seeing the Gaming World forums on their new home.

Through all of this, I was able to response to queries, keep in contact with my consumers (Or in simpler words: The GW users), and talk to my “staff” about what needs to be changed, and gave them timelines.

Today was a sign of the old admin that used to run GW (Me). I got detached from the site and couldn’t put much care and thought into it, but today I did, and I can only hope this spark I’ve had for the last few weeks about changing things and moving forward will stay.

Essentially, this is a lesson in keeping your costumers happy. I kept mine updated, joked around with them, and let them test things that no one else could see (The beauty of an IRC channel) and in the end, I had a functioning, speedy forum and no one was complaining at the 2 hours of downtime.