*sigh* Why is it that whenever I make a statement that Dethman didn't make the decision to close down the JMMB, that people ignore me and blame him anyway?
They couldn't handle it anymore.
This is only half true. We were managing to hold out for a while, but it was a lot of work on Steven Wakeman. Though being the hard worker that is is, we kept the site alive for a while. That in and of itself was not enough of a reason to close the site down.
Dethman was angered that there wasn't enough, "christianity" on the board anymore, so he shut it down.
That is blatently wrong. I know he knew that the board lost its Christian values/roots, but that's not the reason that we shut it down either. We didn't have Derby back then so like 90% of the posts were flamewars and fighting and such, and we wanted it to end.
Of course no one seems to think that the final blow just might have happened because it's nearly impossible to find a web host that will give you a gig of disk space and unlimited transfer for free.
The history of J2C hosts:
1.) J2C started as a personal webpage on frontiernet. Basically the free space that they got for using their home ISP. 10 megs. As you can imagine, J2C outgrew that 10 meg limit awful fast.
2.) Mich.com. This was a good web host, a friend of Deth's I believe. He used to run an ISP and played JJ2 so he was a fan of the game. We resided there for a while. I miss that site, we had shell access and everything. We were also the biggest user on their servers, but that's another story. :-) Anyway, to make a long story short, mich.com went under and we had to change hosts.
3.) Next was actionxtreme.com. This was a site that Jeh worked at. Remember him? He graciously managed to find some space for us to be for a while. That site wasn't so great, as I only had FTP access. Anyway, J2C was there for a short while more, until actionxtreme.com was bought out by Gamespy.
Once Gamespy got their hands on it, it was pretty much game over. Somehow the FTP password got changed, and no one could access the site. Jeh couldn't change it for us. I couldn't get in to make a final backup of all the files. It was a mess. The site continued to operate for about a month or two on its own, then it just dissappeared.
At that point, we never really brought it back. Finding a web host that will give you a gig of disk space for free is quite challenging. Eventually, I put it up on my personal server at: http://jazz2city.milesba.com so that people could download the files still, but it looks like that's broke now. I'll have to fix it once I get home. I've still got the backup files on 2 CD's. The J2C stuff on one of them, and the JMMB stuff on a second. It literally took over a gig of disk space to host J2C.
I think I may bring it back again just for the files, but it will never become active again.
And like it was mentioned, check <a href="http://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/showthread.php?t=7860">here</a> for a previous topic that also explained a lot about why it closed. It wasn't just because of Dethman, it was because of a lot of reasons.