I know there's at least a few of you that spend time on Co4x4.org as well, anyone know what's going on with the site? Not sure if Eric forgot to pay the hosting bill or what, but seems crazy that a site should be down for more than a few hours let alone a couple days.... I'm going through withdrawals and being forced to surf the numerous other 4x4 forums out there!
Colorado4x4.org??
- Thread starter steven_mc
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AaronPaige
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- Location
- Price ut
By Steven are you refuring to the watsons... I'm not a member of that forum but will be if it comes back up
- Location
- Fruita, CO
It goes down for extended periods pretty often. I dont know why, but it will come back.
I've noticed short outages here and there, seems odd. Not sure who Eric uses to host the site, but most hosters lose money when their sites are down, its bad for business.
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Still down... one upon a time I emailed Eric about buying CO4x4, at least it would stay up. 
He never responded, which is fine with me after taking over another forum and having that go South.
He never responded, which is fine with me after taking over another forum and having that go South.
Still down... one upon a time I emailed Eric about buying CO4x4, at least it would stay up.
People just think you are some forum baron with a hidden agenda to make a billion dollars.
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Still down... one upon a time I emailed Eric about buying CO4x4, at least it would stay up.
Lots of valuable information, build threads, and years of history on that site... If Eric isn't interested in properly maintaining it anymore he should sell it to someone that would. It's frustrating.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Instead of it being lost, I wonder if RME would archive it here? (assuming he doesn't want to keep it up and going?)
Still down... one upon a time I emailed Eric about buying CO4x4, at least it would stay up.
What was the other forum?
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Yeah, totally agree. It's not easy starting a forum from scratch, then maintaining it over years... I don't know how he feels about the site now, but keeping a site up when you've lost interest isn't easy.
Meh... it's easier (IMO) keeping different sites separate.
Planet4x4.net
It's a long story about how it turned out, but basically the founder was going to shut it down and tell his members to come here. We made a deal to keep it running and I bought it, but some of the guys that were helping out fought me from the start or did nothing and it went downhill, no support and I wasn't local, so that made the divide even worse. Over time, even though Herzog and I put a lot of time, effort & money into it, some members of the community weren't happy. I did my best to salvage it, almost sold it to a couple locals but it didn't work out. Ended up selling the site to the same company that bought Pirate and it's really gone downhill. All I wanted was to see the forum stay online and healthy, I know how much goes into getting a forum up & running.
idahoyj
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- Location
- Twin Falls Idaho
Planet was OK for a while after you sold it, but it is DEAD now. I think even the spammers, that ran unrestricted through there, have given up on it. I miss it's local (Idaho) connections. All the RME peeps are so far away! The "locals" started their own site, which never really took off. It's dead now too.
I was excited to help keep that site going and really hoped that the locals would keep it alive. But I get it, I guess in hindsight I'd feel weird about some out of state guys running a 'local' forum. I was hoping somebody would create a new grassroots community for the scene up there.
idahoyj
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- Location
- Twin Falls Idaho
Planet is the first forum I ever signed up for. Now I waste half of my day checking RME.......