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TechZ — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:53:27 +0000

Yes FinalGear devotees, we not only have this (now rather dated *hint hint Viper*) homepage, we also have forums!

Chock full of threads and posts by others like YOU making the site a very handy resource. We have sections on Fifth Gear (RIP), Top Gear and a few other interesting shows. Not to mention all the shows that the hosts do when they aren’t making episodes of some our very favourite series. Heard a tune in one of the episodes you really like? We have a section on that too!

Even with so many (expected) sections, we have threads on food, entertainment and tons more, guaranteed to waste your semi-precious time from work or home or simply taking the train (wtf?) to work.

A lot of you already know about the forums, but you’d be surprised as to how many don’t, so those of you who don’t have no excuse not to sign up.

The FinalGear.com Forums originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 3 November 2009 at 22:53 GMT.

Server Troubles… Fixed?

Viper007Bond — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:58:59 +0000

You guys sure love your Top Gear, don’t you? We managed to break our server today due to the metric assload of traffic (we broke all of our old traffic records, even with the downtime), but PacketCollision and Quiky managed to sort it all out, we hope.

So apologies for the downtime, but we should hopefully be good from here on out. Now go watch Top Gear — it was a great episode!

UPDATE: Things are looking quite good. The drop in traffic plus the tweaked server settings seems to have done the trick. Oh, and for future reference — if the site ever goes down again, make sure to check the site’s Twitter account as I’ll post status updates there.

Server Troubles… Fixed? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 21 June 2009 at 23:58 GMT.

FinalGear.com Forums Passes One Million Posts Mark!

Viper007Bond — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:16:43 +0000

I’m proud to announce that a little over 24 hours ago, our forums passed the one million post mark! Thanks to everyone who has participated on our forums. To the rest of you, I hope to see you help us toward the two million mark. There’s lots of great stuff on our forums including stuff in future Top Gear episodes that I don’t post on the front page (as many people don’t like spoilers).

FinalGear.com Forums Passes One Million Posts Mark! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 12 June 2009 at 06:16 GMT.

FinalGear Is Now The Official Home Of The Garage419 Forums

Viper007Bond — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:26:30 +0000

You may or may not have heard of Garage419. For those who haven’t, they’re an online automotive review show. Here’s a one of their episodes:

Click here to view the embedded media.

Anyway, until now they’ve relied on YouTube comments and their own video commenting system to gather feedback from their viewers. However they recently approached us with a proposal for us to host their forums. They’re big fans of our site and especially our forums and were looking for an existing community to become a part of. We happily agreed as this means more exposure for us via promotions on their site and in their videos and it benefits them too by spreading the word about their great little series.

So, starting today, you can discuss their episodes, make episode suggestions, and more all via a new section on our forums.

FinalGear Is Now The Official Home Of The Garage419 Forums originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 1 May 2009 at 11:26 GMT.

E-Mail Working Again

Viper007Bond — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:34:30 +0000

If you tried to contact me over the past week, your e-mail didn’t come through. Please resend it. It didn’t occur to me that our e-mail wasn’t working due to the server issues, otherwise I would have disabled the form and posted a message saying why.

Just re-send your message now and I’ll get it. :)

E-Mail Working Again originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 19 April 2009 at 07:34 GMT.

FinalGear: Back To Normal

Viper007Bond — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:27:16 +0000

Just a quick note saying everything is back to normal server wise as of a day or two ago. Nice and fast as before (if not faster). Thanks for your patience during the past week.

FinalGear: Back To Normal originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 17 April 2009 at 11:27 GMT.

Server Hardware Troubles Will Result In Downtime

Viper007Bond — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:53:49 +0000

This is just a quick note to let you know that the site (including the forums) may be offline sporadically over the next couple days. One of the hard drives on our server failed, so we’re only running off one drive at the moment. Backups are currently taking place and we’re moving the site and/or forums to temporary hosting until the new drives arrive on Tuesday. We’ll then reload everything on the server (might as well since it’ll be offline for the drive swap) and we should be fully back online on Tuesday or Wednesday.

During our downtimes (or anytime really), feel free to join us in our IRC channel: #gear on irc.finalgear.com. If you don’t have an IRC client such as Chatzilla, you can connect using Mibbit (bookmark that link).

Thanks for being patient and for using FinalGear.com. :)

Server Hardware Troubles Will Result In Downtime originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 12 April 2009 at 02:53 GMT.

Server Trouble

Viper007Bond — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:41:34 +0000

UPDATE: All fixed now. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Hmm, looks like our static.finalgear.com subdomain that serves all of the site’s images and CSS is down meaning that the site and forums probably look like crap to you right now. Sorry about that, but I’m too big of a server noob to know how to fix it. We’ll have to wait for Quiky to come back to his PC. Hang in there meanwhile.

Server Trouble originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 21 September 2008 at 23:41 GMT.

Top Gear Spoilers

Viper007Bond — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:31:12 +0000

This is just a reminder that I don’t post spoilers on the front page, so if you’re wanting to know where they’ve been and are currently filming, make sure to check out the spoilers section of our forums. Lots of great stuff there right now!

Top Gear Spoilers originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 19 September 2008 at 03:31 GMT.

Contact Form Is Working Again

Viper007Bond — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:26:41 +0000

Our contact form has apparently been broken since January 9th or shortly thereafter. I had just figured no one wanted to e-mail me, lol.

So simply put, if you e-mailed me via our contact form during the past 2 months, I never got it and the e-mail is unrecoverable. Sorry, but you can always e-mail me again now that the form is working. ;)

Contact Form Is Working Again originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 18 March 2008 at 03:26 GMT.

Planned Server Downtime

Viper007Bond — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:35:45 +0000

Our site, forums, wiki, etc. will all be offline for 3 to 5 hours starting at 2PM GMT this Saturday. Our collocation center, FDC, will be doing power upgrades and fixes. As usual, if you’re bored and left without anything to do during that time period, you can always join us in our IRC channel if you have an IRC client such as mIRC or ChatZilla for Firefox.

Planned Server Downtime originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 6 February 2008 at 01:35 GMT.

FinalGear Needs Your Help!

Quiky — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:01:27 +0000

We are looking for new co-location due to our current host’s mis-interpretation of copyright law and false reports by the ESA.

We need 5U of space for 2 servers, preferably in the US, with 2TB of bandwidth/month. We are fully compliant with the United States DMCA and International Copyright Laws. Send us an offer or any questions to hostingoffers @ finalgear.com .

Thanks!

~~In other news, our IRC server is down, but that’s unrelated. We’re hanging out at #gear on irc.chatsociety.net meanwhile.~~ Our IRC server is back up!

FinalGear Needs Your Help! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 25 January 2008 at 22:01 GMT.

The Recent Downtime

Viper007Bond — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:37:48 +0000

Seems the sever decided to take a total crap. Took us quite a while to actually get into the server and then even more time to fix MySQL which was heavily broken. All should be well now though. Sorry about that.

The Recent Downtime originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 8 January 2008 at 08:37 GMT.

Welcome To “Titan”!

Viper007Bond — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:56:01 +0000

After you guys literally made the server come to a crawl on the first two Sundays of this month, Quiky decided it was time for an upgrade.

The old box was a single Xeon 3.0GHz with 4GB of RAM on Windows 2003. Once we got past about the 600 users on the forums and probably tons more on the main site, things would start breaking as some of you may noticed earlier this month.

Well, this should happen no longer (hopefully, lol) due to our new server, named “Titan”, which should be something like 10x as fast. It’s rocking 4 dual-core AMD Opteron 8220 processors (yes, that’s 8 cores total) with 16GB of RAM on Ubuntu (yay, no more Windows!).

Simply put, it’s badass. Enjoy the new, lightning quick page serve times. :)

Welcome To “Titan”! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 26 October 2007 at 04:56 GMT.

Countdown To Top Gear!

Viper007Bond — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:17:01 +0000

There’s just under 12 hours to go until Top Gear returns for an all new season! Join us on our forums or our IRC chat channel as we countdown the hours!

But please, no asking when a rip of the show will be out. We’ll do our best to get it out as soon as possible and asking will not make it go any quicker. Thanks.

If you’d like to automatically download the rip as soon as it’s out, add our torrent RSS feed to your BitTorrent client. Help and instructions can be found in this forum thread.

Countdown To Top Gear! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 7 October 2007 at 07:17 GMT.

Team FinalGear’s Progress At The 24 Hours Of LeMons Race

TechZ — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:20:42 +0000

With the 24 Hours of LeMons race having started a few hours ago at the Flat Rock Speedway in Michigan, Team FinalGear is doing well in the black BMW. What race? Well, read all about it on the forums, as most of you must’ve already. And if not, where have you been?!

So far Quiky and Serajadeyn have been racing for 5 hours with 400 laps in the BMW, best position was 12th and they are currently 19th.

FliPP has posted some pictures and videos taken today from his visit to the track.

As always there is the FinalGear chat with both drivers making guest appearances from the track side whenever they can!

Thanks to all the sponsors and donations that helped get us this far. Good Luck to both our drivers for the remainder of the race.

Team FinalGear’s Progress At The 24 Hours Of LeMons Race originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sat, 29 September 2007 at 23:20 GMT.

Team FinalGear In The 24 Hours of Lemons!

Quiky — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:44:12 +0000

Yes, thats right, we are in the 24 Hours of Lemons! More specifically, we are in for the Flat Rock Speedway on September 29th/30th. I (Quiky), Serajadeyn, and a few other drivers are in the race with a very fancy / beatup car.

Presenting our… 1993 BMW 525i!

So here is the catch — we are asking for sponsors to help cover some of the car costs like a rollcage, safety belts, fire extinguisher, tires, brakes, traveling cost from MD to Michigan, etc. If you donate, we’ll even stick your name/logo/website name/graphic of choice (non-pornographic please) on the car!

Details can be found on our forums.

Team FinalGear In The 24 Hours of Lemons! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 22 August 2007 at 00:44 GMT.

Broken Images

Viper007Bond — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:28:48 +0000

Whoops. The server we had been using to serve the site’s images was taken down at the end of last month (we cancelled it to save bills) and I missed a few references to the old URL. I think all HTML/CSS has been changed now though to point towards the new image server. Sorry about those red X’s, but it should be all better now.

On a side note, the colocation our servers are currently hosted in apparently has the worst power supplies in the world. So if you are unable to reach the site for a bit, you know what to blame. Things will be better after we move at the end of the month.

Broken Images originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 3 August 2007 at 09:28 GMT.

Server Move In Progress

Viper007Bond — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:26:15 +0000

The servers that this site and it’s forums are usually on are in the process of moving. They’ll be shipped cross-country tomorrow and hopefully will be installed soon.

Meanwhile, the site and forums are on two separate, less powerful backup boxes and as a result, you may notice slightly slower page load times. Apologies, but it’s only temporary.

Server Move In Progress originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 30 March 2007 at 03:26 GMT.

Server Move Starting March 26th

Viper007Bond — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:59:34 +0000

Starting on March 26th, we will be shipping the two servers that this site currently runs on from San Fransisco to Pennsylvania as we are switching hosting centers. The main site will be temporarily hosted on the old front end server in San Fransisco while the other two are in transit and being set back up. The forums will be either hosted on our static file server in the Netherlands or on another server run off a high capacity cable connection. We haven’t decided which yet.

But anyway, during this week or so of moving and setting up, we may have downtime from time to time, but we will do our best to ensure that the site and forums are as normal as possible.

Thanks for using FinalGear.com. :)

Server Move Starting March 26th originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 16 March 2007 at 00:59 GMT.

Downtime Issues

Quiky — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:41:00 +0000

Sorry about the downtime we had earlier today.. we had some unexplained power issues from the datacenter.

EDIT @ 12:11: Update / explanation on the forums for those who care. Torrent downloads have also been fixed. -Viper

Downtime Issues originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 18 February 2007 at 04:41 GMT.

FinalGear.com Meet At The Nürburgring In May?

Viper007Bond — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:13:45 +0000

Do you live within driving distance of the ‘Ring (that’d be Germany for those who are seriously clueless)? If so, check out this thread on our forums. We’re trying to get a meet going for sometime in May and need input from those who’d be interested in showing up. So speak up!

FinalGear.com Meet At The Nürburgring In May? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sat, 17 February 2007 at 11:13 GMT.

Site’s Back!

Viper007Bond — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:27:30 +0000

You’re now looking at the site and forums on the new webserver. The OS change on the database server hasn’t taken place yet, so for the moment the database is on this server as well, but at some point it will be moved back onto it’s sister server so that we can handle the increased load when Top Gear returns.

Anyway, thanks for sticking with us during the downtime and while we finish up the move.

Site’s Back! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 31 December 2006 at 05:27 GMT.

Expected Downtime On December 26th 30th

Viper007Bond — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:31:37 +0000

A kickass and really powerful new webserver will be installed on the 26th and the database server will also be taken down for some work then, so don’t be worried when we go down for a couple hours sometime on the 26th.

EDIT: Sorry to everyone for the lack of downtime that day, we had a few issues with the server preventing us from installing it. We are in the process of reloading and configuring the system, so it is on target to be installed tomorrow, the 30th. ~Quiky

Expected Downtime On December ~~26th~~ 30th originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sat, 23 December 2006 at 01:31 GMT.

Some Images On The Site Are Failing To Load

Viper007Bond — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:38:03 +0000

12/15 00:53: We’ve switched to using a different server for hosting the images. All should be well now. ;)

The server we currently are using to serve all of the images located on the site and forums (they are hosted on a separate, high-bandwidth server) is currently overloaded with connections. This is resulting in some broken images.

We are aware of the issue and are currently working on resolving the problem. Please stick with us and thanks for your patience.

Some Images On The Site Are Failing To Load originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 14 December 2006 at 12:38 GMT.