SDC FORUM OFFLINE ?

[mfg]

Wow!… The Studebaker Drivers Club account has been suspended!

Not sure why, however I do feel the SDC forum has been mismanaged for quite some time…..

Time for a new Studebaker Forum administrator (finally!!)

[Dwight FitzSimons]

That was addressed here:

 

[mfg]

13 hours ago, Dwight FitzSimons said:

That was addressed here:

 

I’ll tell you one thing… although the Studebaker Drivers Club is (supposedly) non profit, never ask the Stude Forum administrator his annual salary!!

(Hush-hush!)

[Bob Preston]

Allegedly, the site was hacked and ransom exceeding the administrator’s salary by many multiples is being demanded. It is clearly a high value target. 

[64StudebakerAvanti]

Do not know the admin's salary, but the median salary nationwide is around $115,000 for IT professionals, according to Glass Door. This seems reasonable. When I retired in 2012, my salary was $120,000 for enterprise architect.

Edited 1 hour ago by 64StudebakerAvanti

[mfg]

2 minutes ago, 64StudebakerAvanti said:

Do not know the admin's salary, but the median salary nationwide is around $115,000 for IT professionals, according to Glass Door. This seems reasonable. When I retired in 2012, my salary was $120,000 for enterprise architect.

More power to him… however, when I’m paying dues to a not for profit car club, and I want to know how my money is being spent, I do not think I should be retaliated against just for asking the question… which is exactly what happened to me.

[lschuc]

Wow, I am really underpaid. In addition to publishing Avanti Magazine, I administer our AOAI website and forum gratis… as an IT professional I should be getting $120,000 from the AOAI at minimum. 😎😎😳😳

[64StudebakerAvanti]

I understand your frustration. As an unpaid volunteer, I administer the campground WiFi/Internet system. We have over 200 users. Let there be a slow down, or heaven forbid an outage, and I am the devil incarnate. I should demand that they triple my salary!

 

As an acquaintance of mine that administers a different park said, "I could spell IT, so now I am it.

Edited 46 minutes ago by 64StudebakerAvanti

[64StudebakerAvanti]

Back to the outage. From what we know, an update was scheduled by however is hosting the forum. This could have gone horribly wrong. It is also possible that the host was "hacked". In any case,  more than the SDC forum is affected. The SDC administrator would not have any control over either of those situations. 

 

If hacked, the SDC is not high value, so is not the likely target.