Letter from Simon at LONGEVITY - Updates on Forum - Fabtech

[LONGEVITY]

Hi Everyone,

I must apologize for the torture we put you guys through the last two months with not being able to login, post photos, edits, etc... As some of you may know, we were hacked and they tried to take us down for good.

Fortunately, we had some backups and restoring, although has been proven difficult, we are on the right track. There will be changes to come as we will improve the forum. I must apologize for any lost photos or posts at this point. We are trying to reinstate the missing images. From now on, our entire server is backed up on a daily basis so this will never, ever, ever happen again. Knock on wood....

If any of you have missing images or see anything that is not right on the forum, please bring it to my attention on this thread. We are still working with the vbulletin team to get everything back as it was. I want to personally thank everyone for sticking around. I also want to enter those who stayed for an exclusive drawing at Fabtech 2010.

For those who posted in the last three months and recently posted up until Saturday will be entered in a random drawing that will be recorded at Fabtech 2010. Our booth number will be 7508 so please stop by. The convention will be at The Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Dates November 2nd-4th.

We are also excited to inform that Dan Clark (Gadget) and Stan (SICFabrications), along with Lee Stamper of American Choppers, Southern Steel, and now LSDDesigns.com will be there as well part of our team to join LONGEVITY Staff and myself. The booth is 450 sq feet and plenty of space to show our equipment.

As for the the random drawing entry. Respond here with your ID and let us know how much you missed FREEWELDINGFORUM.com

Thank you all! Sorry for the troubles!

Simon Katz
LONGEVITY Welding

[wellis77]

Wow, that's awesome! Thanks Simon. UserID is "wellis77" and it was brutal without this forum. While I'm not a mass contributor to the knowledge, I am a knowledge leach and it was tough. I've learned so much from this forum and I'm grateful for you guys putting this together and making this happen. It's a great resource, and frankly a great sales avenue. Also looking forward to my new plasma cutter and mig welder. I'm already looking forward to putting up pics of my work. Thanks again!

[Bdub]

Hi Simon, UserID is Bdub. You never know how much you miss something until it's gone. I really missed the forum. Just ask Gadget. Soon as I could get a hold of him, I was firing questions. A big Thank You to all of you folks behind the scenes. I look forward to a better forum. Thanks again.

[Gadget]

I think you already know how much I missed the forum. I didn't know I could hold my breath that long Anyway I think I would like to be in the random drawing so enter Gadget too. Thank you for working so hard to get the forum back up and functional.
Dan

[gilly]

User ID gilly,and you know I missed the forum from the email and phone calls.I was almost squealing when I realized I could sign in and post again.Glad to be back,and thanks for going that extra mile to get things back in order.I would like to be entered in the random drawing.Thank you.

Guy

[KHK]

I need the forum FIX so I posted on weldingweb.com under the Longevity thread. I like the people on the Longevity forum!!! I am very happy that the forum is almost back to normal. My thanks to all that helped get it up and running again!!!
My user ID is "KHK" and please enter me in the random drawing

[arandall]

I too missed the forum, and appreciate the work done to get it up and running again. Please enter me in the random drawing. My username is arandall.

[poodle]

My username is poodle and I would like to be in the random drawing. I missed this place so much I would set for hours and try to figure some way just to squeeze in and say hey. I tracked down Stan as he was the only one I could figure out how to reach. At least I was not alone in my misery.

[Kel Fab Creations]

Please enter me in the contest. User id kel fab creations. I haven't been on the forum for too long but I'm glad its getting fixed up and better than ever. If it went down now I would definitely be missing it. I love these drawings. You rock Simon.

[tomsign]

I also missed the Forum,(user name ID Tomsign) its nice to take a break from the day activeties, and check out the Forum, what the guys are into, finding info and sorts, Thanks for all your hard work Simon.
FYI lost all my photos that had been posted. and wished I was closer to Atlanta, GA so I could stop in
Tomsign