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Jeff Flowerday
05-02-2006, 12:06 PM
It's quite unbelievable actually. They lost everything, basically it's starting over from scratch.

It's one heck of alot of valuable gear info lost. Sad!!!
GuitarsCanada
05-02-2006, 03:28 PM
Anyway we can take advantage of that "tragedy"
Jeff Flowerday
05-02-2006, 03:48 PM
Anyway we can take advantage of that "tragedy"

I see more traffic here since, but we don't have the volume or content to entertain, plus this a Canadian only site.

In all reality, I'm still pissed they lost everything, it was invaluable to me.

I think they had 10000+ members who had contributed 5+ years worth of gear experiences.

May 15th they will fire up again, within a day they will have twice as many members from around the world and 10 times the content. I'll be one of them.

I think most Canadians by nature lay back and take things in, they aren't up to initiating posts etc... We have some good people here but we really need our lurkers to start adding content and speak up. Another thing is a good portion of gear page content was expensive boutique stuff. Seems whenever I talk about a expensive guitar or amp here I have 3 replies from fellow Canadians that think I'm nuts for spending over $150 on a piece of gear. I'm exagerating of course but you get my gist.

I miss the gear page already.


Jeff
GuitarsCanada
05-02-2006, 03:51 PM
Well said.... but we need to get our butts in "gear" here and make this the go to site, at least Canada's go to site. Anyone that reads this. The more you put in, the more you get out. So lets get posting and get the data base built up.:DevilGuitar:
Jeff Flowerday
05-02-2006, 03:52 PM
Well said.... but we need to get our butts in "gear" here and make this the go to site, at least Canada's go to site. Anyone that reads this. The more you put in, the more you get out. So lets get posting and get the data base built up.:DevilGuitar:


And may I add that the database should be backed up as well. Scott, you may want to get a physical copy every now and then. :) :) :)
GuitarsCanada
05-02-2006, 03:56 PM
And may I add that the database should be backed up as well. Scott, you may want to get a physical copy every now and then. :) :) :)

Yes, we should use that Gear Page disaster as a lesson. I will check into that and make sure I get a physical back-up that I can store at home. :thanks5qx:
davetcan
05-02-2006, 05:13 PM
I see more traffic here since, but we don't have the volume or content to entertain, plus this a Canadian only site.

In all reality, I'm still pissed they lost everything, it was invaluable to me.

I think they had 10000+ members who had contributed 5+ years worth of gear experiences.

May 15th they will fire up again, within a day they will have twice as many members from around the world and 10 times the content. I'll be one of them.

I think most Canadians by nature lay back and take things in, they aren't up to initiating posts etc... We have some good people here but we really need our lurkers to start adding content and speak up. Another thing is a good portion of gear page content was expensive boutique stuff. Seems whenever I talk about a expensive guitar or amp here I have 3 replies from fellow Canadians that think I'm nuts for spending over $150 on a piece of gear. I'm exagerating of course but you get my gist.

I miss the gear page already.


Jeff

I couldn't agree more and I'll be back there ASAP.
Xanadu
05-03-2006, 08:47 AM
What are you talking about?:confused-smiley-010
Jeff Flowerday
05-03-2006, 08:55 AM
What are you talking about?:confused-smiley-010

You've never been to the www.thegearpage.net (http://www.thegearpage.net)? It was the most informative gear related forum on the internet. 10,000+ members and millions of posts.
Xanadu
05-03-2006, 06:11 PM
You've never been to the www.thegearpage.net (http://www.thegearpage.net)? It was the most informative gear related forum on the internet. 10,000+ members and millions of posts.
oh, well nope, i've never been there.
SCREEM
05-03-2006, 08:26 PM
the gear page was great, at least there is still Har...uh....comedy central :D
Jeff Flowerday
05-03-2006, 08:28 PM
Apparently they might have found a backup from 3-4 weeks ago, which is excellent news.
mario
05-07-2006, 09:02 AM
The one good thing about the Gear Page crash was that I am playing a lot more! But I do miss it too! Hopefully this site keeps getting bigger.:food-smiley-004:
Jeff Flowerday
05-15-2006, 05:21 PM
The one good thing about the Gear Page crash was that I am playing a lot more! But I do miss it too! Hopefully this site keeps getting bigger.:food-smiley-004:

Put the guitar down, they've been back up since Friday or so. :rockon:
mario
05-28-2006, 10:49 AM
Looks like it crashed again.:confused-smiley-010
Gilliangirl
05-31-2006, 07:56 PM
I'm not familiar with The Gear Page but a mod from TGP posted on the AGF that there's a temporary site set up while TGP is down. Here's the site...

www.BirdsandMoons.com
david henman
06-01-2006, 09:17 AM
I'm not familiar with The Gear Page but a mod from TGP posted on the AGF that there's a temporary site set up while TGP is down. Here's the site...www.BirdsandMoons.com


...wot an odd name for a guitar/gear forum, eh?
Jeff Flowerday
06-01-2006, 02:43 PM
...wot an odd name for a guitar/gear forum, eh?

Not really. It's a PRS guitar forum, you either get bird or moon inlays on PRS guitars. :D
GuitarsCanada
06-03-2006, 10:50 AM
They are still down over there.

The Gear Page website is down at present due to a recent hard disk failure. We will continue to update this page as status changes:

As of the late night of June 2nd, we are still waiting for the webhost to complete setting up the new more secure hard disk configuration. We are doing this to insure that this incident doesn't keep happening. We were "hoping" that the site could come back up Friday, but we have to wait until the new RAID configuration is setup to proceed. We'll get the TGP up and running as soon as possible.