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Different username, the mods on here don't like me so I get banned on average yearly. Makes me wonder how the hell you manage to remain ban free on here though. I am sure I must have congratulated Poole, after all they are a team everyone loves and would have wanted to congratulate.. yes that is irony too!

Congratulations League Champions Birmingham for finishing 10 points clear of Poole. Regardless of what happens in the next two weeks of micky mouse matches, we all know who the rightful and deserved league champions are. Hopefully Brum will go on to finish the job now.

Not necessarily. Remember, it may be that the websites are hosted on a shared server hired by the BSPA website designer, so it could be the system as reached bandwidth limits and has been suspended by the website host, not AP Media. I had the same problem myself earlier this year and had to invest in a VPS.

ha, yeah sorry, I had a late night, meant for recent years of course

It is very bad timing with us hopefully *touch wood* having our first British World Champion later today. Hopefully any media interested in talking about speedway will find other contacts.

Nobody could ever 100% guarantee outages won't happen again, not practical to suggest outages wont happen. Not working for me either.

Well I don't think money is the issue in this case, however, for the sake of argument. If you are paying £X a month for a server, then you have 10 clients paying say £X+X a month to use that server you are making a profit from those customers. If one or more of those customers refused to pay, but you are still paying out yourself, you are suggesting you carry on using your money for those customers to use a service for free. Get real.

Actually every website hosting company does exactly the same thing. If a bill is not paid, they disable the website account and don't provide access to the service until the bill is paid. But doubt that is the issue in this case as I assume the BSPA pay the bill.

There we go then. Can't blame Birmingham, the BSPA need to resolve this. IMO - Review if they have the best provider of services. - Review if they need to allow clubs to manage their own websites.

I agree, although it may well have been a one-off, we have not seen this before, but it now shows they need to review the websites. What I do not know is if each Speedway Club own their own websites, or if they are like the football league sites, all part of a big deal to share the same infrastructure. I suspect by the fact they all use the moronic .co rather than .co.uk domain names suggests its some big league deal. But, if not, then my advice to the Brummies would be to find a new host, and if they can afford to, look to put their site on their own dedicated server/VPS rather than a shared server. (Just to add to that, if not using a UK domain, vital you ensure the hosting server is UK based, not overseas). Servers/Websites will always go down, but you do a lot to limit those times.

Cost. You can put multiple websites on a shared server, but all those sites will be using the servers resources, so if one website starts getting hit by thousands or millions of hits, then the other sites will suffer. We used to host our site on a shared server and it cost about £100 a year (can get cheaper) but we now host on our own virtual server and pay about £100 a month.

I guess it depends how much money the BSPA/clubs earned from Sky.. and what happened to that money. But from where I am sitting, I can't argue you with you that it does not appear to have been a good thing for speedway, unless their money saved a few clubs of course.

I guess they are only raced on the same night for Sky... not a problem they will have next year from what I am reading. Problem solved.

Server was perhaps set up to auto close any site going over agreed bandwidth. You cant close another business website just because one is on TV.

The what? Is there such a thing?

Shows how deluded Poole fans are then. It happened in the finals last season I seem to recall. It never happens at any other speedway match I have been to, and rarely hear it on Sky throughout the season. To the moronic Poole fans. The time to cheer, if you must cheer, is when the rider is walking back to the pits and the referee puts the exclusion light on. You NEVER cheer the moment a rider goes down. To do so is vile, disgusting and disrespectful.

Please lets all spare a thought for Nigel Pearson. Poor Nige does not know who to suck up to the most at Poole - Holder, Hancock or Ward.

Stop defending him all the time Philip. Listen to it back, he was clearly trying to make out he knew something about speedway bikes, then contradicted himself. I think the aforementioned insult was very valid.

Nigel Pearson "He's got a puncture" Sam "No, he was slowing the race down to get his partner through" Pearson "It was so obvious he was slowing the race down"

He fell off his bike whilst trying to race for points. You really are a first class ****

Well done Poole fans, just like last season you cheer when a rider goes down. Classless Poole fans.

I wonder if the Pirates are so proud to have you as a fan?

Or follow the Poole lead and try and BUY your way to the title with Ward, Holder and Hancock you wind-up merchant. It's comments like this by you Shovlar which is why the majority of neutrals want Swindon to win.

Good luck to Swindon tomorrow.

With all due respect to this hanging Tai for not riding Monday, as he actually said that? Remember when he hurt it in the Summer, he rode the SGP then rode for his Polish and British clubs the following two days, at the time he said it would be disrespectful for him to ride for himself and not for his clubs. A very mature thing to do and say. So, lets wait to see if Tai rides Monday before slagging him for riding at the weekend.