About The Site
Windows Vista Forums was originally started by William Hook in October 2005. The site originally struggled to get any attention, having only a total of 31 members, however, after the board was reinstalled in January 2006 due to the site being hacked, users started to steadly join. The site was sold later that year, in October 06, to Singapore-based Larry Lim, a Search Engine Optimisation consultant. Once again, in December 2007, the forums were sold on to the current owners, iEntry, an advertising firm based in the US. Since then we've grown to become one of the largest Windows-Vista related boards on the internet, with over 20,000 members, and well over 150,000 posts. On average, we get hits from around 140 countries each month.
Server Hardware
We started the site running on a Shared hosting package from A Small Orange. After the original sale of the site, we upgraded to a dedicated server provided by Surpass Hosting. When the site sold in Deceber 2007, the forums were moved onto an extremely powerful server based in a datacentre outside Washington DC.
Server Specifications
Two Intel Quad Core Xeon E5310 1.6GHz CPUs (Socket 771, 1066 MHz FSB, 2x 4MB L2 Cache).
8GB ECC RAM.
73GB Ultra320 SCSI HDD.
500Mbps connection to the Cogent backbone in DC.
Individual Credits
- Mark L. (M4rk) - L33t Vista forum skin, advertising banners and images, site logos (L33t Vista and Microsoft skin), podcast logo, "iLove" badges.
- Kenneth Heyvaert (Crank) - Forum Group Icons.
- Kenneth Heyvaert (Crank) - Operating System Profile Images.
- Ronald Nowak (rndl) - "Snooze" Background.
- Meyer (smashmethod) - "Ariel Rego" Background.
Forum Avatar Packs
- Adobe Application Pack: © 2007 wstaylor, all rights reserved.
- Aquanox Mini: © 2006 cyberchaos05, some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.
- Fanboy Avatars: © 2006 totti-bg, all rights reserved.
- Folder Icons Pack: © 2006 deleket, some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.
- Keriyo Emoticons: © 2007 deleket, some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
- Macromedia Icons Pack: © 2006 deleket, some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.
- MP3 Player Icons: © 2006 deleket, some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.
- OSE: © 2007 gakuseisean, all rights reserved.
- Windows Vista Pack: © 2006 Canucky, all rights reserved.
Advertising
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