The Ride:
It's been very bumpy as some of our older members can attest to. Pretty much since the start it's been a constant struggle to stay online. Pretty much everything that could happen has happened including (but not limited to) the following:
- sloppy, unprofesional and unreliable webhosting (this has plagued us since day one)
- the url Lifesupporters.com was hijacked and pointed to a bird sanctuary website for the course of a few days (by a webhost)
- Lifesupporters software has been hacked twice
- our current server has been compromised and e-mail spam continues to flow from non-existant accounts such as sales@lifesupporters.com
- software limitations meant poor Search Engine Indexing for 3 of our 4 years online
- a staff member taking advantage of another staff members online income and thus betraying both their, and my, trust
I'm sure there's more issues we've endured but these represent the biggest hurdles I can recall.
Lifesupporters.com today is quite different from where I thought it would be in the beginning. To say Lifesupporters is both bigger and smaller than what I originally envisioned is not only a huge understatement, it's the best oxymoron I can think of that encapsulates where we are.