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Title: Village Photos
Post by: Rossvickicampbell on October 31, 2011, 12:49:27 pm
does anybody know what has happened to the website  - www.villagephotos.com - - may be time to migrate somewhere else?

thanks
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: Freakshow on October 31, 2011, 12:51:18 pm
use photobucket, everybody else does.  Stable, easy to load and obviously has enough advertising dollars comingin to maintain and keep its servers and your pictures up for a few years more.
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: firko on October 31, 2011, 01:00:44 pm
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use photobucket, everybody else does.  Stable, easy to load and obviously has enough advertising dollars comingin to maintain and keep its servers and your pictures up for a few years more.
Not everybody Freaky, I've been using Village for years with no problems or complaints until now. I've been trying to get on since early last week and I was getting a message that they were changing servers and would be down until the first of the month. I notice that there's now a 'Temporarily Unavailable' message up.  Wait until the first of November and see if they return online. If not, I've lost a shitload of easily accessed photos and it's over to Photo Bucket.
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: AjayVMX on November 01, 2011, 10:57:31 am
I also am a Village Photos customer, but not sure for how long now.  I sent an email to them about the disruption and they did reply saying they were trying to get a new ISP.  But that was several days ago and their website is still "unavailable".

I have a Photobucket account now as well and at some point I will lose patience with Village and terminate my subscription.

What a pain in the a$%^.  >:(
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: vmx42 on November 01, 2011, 12:14:23 pm
It must certainly be a right royal pain in the butt, but remember both Village and Photobucket are FREE. So I don't know if loosing patience with them and terminating your sub will have much of an impact [on them] - dollar for dollar you are way out in front with the service they have supplied to date.

Perhaps, like all the young kiddies, you should look to the Clouds....  ;)
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: AjayVMX on November 01, 2011, 12:18:39 pm
I have a premium account with Village, so losing my business will affect them a little.  ::)
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: vmx42 on November 01, 2011, 12:24:00 pm
The you should definitely look to the Clouds...
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: firko on November 04, 2011, 10:38:45 pm
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I have a premium account with Village, so losing my business will affect them a little
Me too :'(
Village Photos has missed the "first of the month" promise to be back on line so it's starting to look like they've gone belly-up. I've signed up with Photobucket but it's going to take forever (if ever) to get my photo files up to the thousands that I've probably lost. It's not really such a big deal but I just wish I hadn't just renewed my bloody premium account >:(
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: mx250 on November 04, 2011, 10:52:31 pm
............ but it's going to take forever (if ever) to get my photo files up to the thousands that I've probably lost.
Gee I hope not, that would be a loss for all of us >:(.

It would always be prudent to have back up but I'm sure Village will get they act together. It would be hard to image if they didn't.
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: firko on November 04, 2011, 11:12:17 pm

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Gee I hope not, that would be a loss for all of us .
I've saved most of my photos on my external hard drive but they're in a pretty haphazard order. On Village I had 'em sorted into specific files, making it pretty easy to put my finger on a particular photo at a couple of minutes notice. As it stands at the moment I have to dig through my shots on the external hard drive, upload them to Photobucket and then download onto the forum or wherever. These days if something takes longer than a couple of minutes I lose interest pretty quickly  ::).
Title: Re: Village Photos
Post by: firko on November 05, 2011, 01:08:19 pm
WTF are you talking about Walter ??? ? This has nothing to do with political paranoia, it'a about saving pictures of old bikes, nothing else.....jeez Louise ::) ::) ::)