Ok, as many of you know, we have had some serious issues lately. We've experienced 10x the amount of reboots in the last 3 months than we did the 1st 5 years online. We have had two major(4+ hour) outages too. We only had one really bad one in the 1st 5 and it was my fault.

Things are changing though. The 1st step is that our servers are being moved out of my hometown to a collocated facility. This facility has a better infrastructure and that alone may help us a great deal.

Lately, I have appeared to be inactive, but that really has not been the case. I have just been ripping my hair out worrying about issues that I used to not have to worry about. I am not a server pro, so this is all new to me. I have gotten decent at trying to stamp out little fires set on the server by whatever it is out there doing stuff to us.

With this change, I think that some of the issues will clear on their own, but we'll see. If this move doesn't work, I will end up moving to a different hosting company altogether. I just can't sit back and do this. I need to be writing review, answering emails, etc...

Sorry for the slowness of the site, previous downtimes, etc... I hope to get this all resolved soon.

Ps. Do I have any Linux Pros out there that might be interested in doing some server work for me? If things don't work out with what I am working on now, I may need to move to an unmanaged host and have someone to help me with some things.

I am fixing a glitch here and a glitch there. What we have going on now with the addition of the forums is 3 databases. The Forums, the Blog, and the Photo Gallery.

Last night, I got the photo gallery, forums, and blog databases all sharing info. Now the forums are the basis for login. Being logged into the forums logs you on to the blog and gallery. You username/pass from the gallery is gone now if you ever set one up.

In addition, the gallery allows you to create your own personal galleries too.

I asked about the interest a while back and I was really surprised how many thought having yet another set of Zune forums was a good idea. The idea originated from more than one of you shooting me emails asking why we didn't have forums. Those of you that know my other sites already know that I have forums galore already too. Anyhow, I hesitated since I didn't want to a) create another set of forums with so many good forums for the Zune out there and  b) I wasn't sure there was enough interest. Well, I was having some issues with spam and a dying community over at DAPsite.com and the idea popped in my head, "let's just move those forums over and save myself some money and hopefully save that community." Dapsite, which was once DellDJsite, has been getting hammered by spammers and the participation of it's members was a little slow too. This seemed like an "in the right place at the right time" thing, so here we are.

While the forums are now hosted on GotZune, they are still going to retain the categories for other music players (yes, including iPod), but we added new categories for Zune. There are going to be some growing pains from the exsisting users, some of which own Zunes, but I think we can all work through it.

Thanks for supporting GotZune and I sincerely hope you get some benefit out of the forums. The forums are not to replace the comments on the frontpage, but a thread will be created with each post to point you to the frontpage post. These posts will not be open for discussion, just a pointer to the story.

Important : For members of the the GotZune blog already, make sure if you sign up in the forums to use the same username and password.

That's all I can say...

I am happy to announce the addition of Adam Stafford to the GotZune Team. Adam has been supporting Zune over at his blog, Zune.Adamentity.com. I am pleased to have him come onboard and I think you guys will be too. You all will eventually get tired of hearing me complain about Apple Fanboys attempting objectivity when discussing Zune.

Welcome Adam!

I have been on a mini sebatcle for the last 3 days. Trying to take a mini vacation. I got a couple emails asking where was I and all my posts, so I decided to jump on here and tell ya.

I am here. Posting fast and furious again soon. Also, something else is coming Zune... Stay Zuned.

PS. Everyone get their goods from the contest yet?

I posted a few of my 2007 Best of Lists on Mobilitysite and Susan shared a nice greeting at the stroke of midnight from the East Coast last night from her phone. Now I am going to share some fireworks from the 2 hour long show I put on in our neighborhood last night.

Thanks to all that read AXIMSITE, Mobilitysite, GotZune, and the others. Thanks to all that help out around here. We are working on a About Us page to show all the folks that do so much to make this a great site and a fun place to be!

Read on for more....

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From all of us at Got Zune?.....

Happy New Year!

Thanks for your support, comments, and questions. May your 2008 be full of Zune!

Well, I returned my Zune Dock Pack to Target yesterday. Now, you may be asking why. Well, I paid $49.99 full price because I didn't feel like paying the $99.99 regular price for the AV Dock v2. Then, Toys R' Us decided to put all their MP3 accessories on a 40% Discount so it was only $59.99. I figured, what the heck, for $10 more it was worth getting. By the way, if you rack up at least $75 and use Paypal as your payment method, you get $20 off! Enjoy!