Wrestling Smarks

Site Name: Wrestling Smarks
Site URL: www.wrestlingsmarks.com
Topics: Pro Wrestling/MMA/Entertainment/Sports
Launch Date: December 2nd 2010
Thread Count: 27,078
Post Count: 273,538
Member Count: 1,965

I've had a few of these wrestling sites over the years, and this one was launched after I had my former co-owner on a different domain delete the site, database in a fit of rage for some reason. At that point we had close to 750,000 posts and lost it all. New site was launched and we where able to get a lot of the old members back and build up a decent member base again.

End goal in all of this is to get a decent size network up in the combat sports(Boxing/MMA/Wrestling) just in the planning stages now with domains being purchased ect.

 

Did you have any backups at all? As far as rage quits go, your co-owner's one is hardcore!

 

Sadly no backups....he handled all the server stuff and did regular backups and I never thought the guy would rage out and kill the site. I learned my lesson though and do regular backups for the current site.

 

do you test your backups?

always good to take one of the backups and create another online instance, locked up of course.

Your site reminds me of the site that turned into wrestlingforum

 

Just purchased another less active forum that had fallen off a bit but was once very active. Gained about 600k quality post and some of there members are also slowly trickling in. Exciting given the fact that I was trying for quite some time to purchase another site and finally had some luck.

 

After spending the better part of the year talking about moving to Xenforo I finally bit the bullet and went ahead with the move.

www.wrestlingsmarks.com