What was this site made with?

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I know it took php, but i remember someone telling me there was a program called bulliten BB or something

The whole show runs on either PHP-Nuke or PostNuke. There's an intergration module for PHP-Nuke that intergrates this message board. The message board software is phpBB version 2.0.x.

This site is PHP-Nuke powered. I know Alex has done some tweaks here and there though, and the skin is pretty cool IMO

Dunc,
While you're at it, would you be able to tell us what's causing all the technical problems?

I f I knew I would Sean, but I don't deal with any programming/maintenance, thats Alex and Mashi's domain. My assumption (which may or may not be correct) - as this site is hoted on a shared server, the load at times recently has been unfavourable to WP, leading to slow response times. The same applies to the SQL database on which threads etc are stored, in addition to which it may be in need of optimising.

Regarding last nights down time, this could be caused by one of two things - either maintenance/upgrading/failure of the server by the hosting company, and the site being subsequently restored from backup, or a change of hosting company with a lag in transfering the DNS record.

Dunc

Or Alex messing w the code again

oh is there such a thing like PHPBB for just pure HTML ?

I don't mean too sound stupid, I just recently taught myself some HTML this year. So please bare with me. If there's not can one of you guys tell me the best way too make a forum using html?

the site was being transferred to a new server in california. It used to be in virginia.

Plain HTML isn't powerful enough to make a forum. Its purpose is laying out pages in a certain way, but it's pretty lame at collecting and organizing information on the fly, which is what you need for a message board. There's a lot of complex information processing going on in the background of a message board, and PHP is used for that sort of thing.

To elaborate, HTML (or xhtml) is used in every website. HTML by itself is just a way to mark up text and lay out a page. You send a request to the server for a particular query string. Traditionally, you'd just have a bunch of files sitting there, and you just put the file name/path in the URL. For a webpage, the server sends you back some headers and the HTML. But on dynamic websites, the HTML is generated on the fly, usually according to what is in a database. It also allows you to work with state information (who's logged in on this computer? etc) and do tasks better suited toward a procedural language than a markup language.

Another common misconception is that things like PHPBB or Nuke (or even PHP itself) are these things that you download onto your computer that you use like a normal program to magically generate your site, which you then upload. In reality, these are scripts that you upload to the server itself which actively respond to things going on with your site.

Learning HTML is a good thing to do, though. Often times when I'm writing web applications, I'll have to think in several languages at once.