• The Ninth Infantry Division Association
  • The Ninth Infantry Division Association
  • The Ninth Infantry Division Association
  • The Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Ninth Infantry Division Association Mission

This Association is formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of our fallen comrades, to preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, to assist in promoting an everlasting world peace exclusively by means of educational activities and to serve as an information bureau to former members of the 9th Infantry Division.

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Saturday, 15 May 2010 04:24

Octofoil Update

Written by  Torry Crass
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As you can see, this is not the site that we had before.  Unfortunately, the server that was hosting the site crashed completely beyond repair.  The drives that contain the site and files have been sent off to a recovery facility but that facility has not been successful in recovering any data after several weeks.  At this point, the cost of recovery has already exceeded my ability to cover it and I don't have an official bill yet.

 

Given this situation, I'll be reconstructing the site from scratch and calling off the recovery efforts before they amount to tens of thousands of dollars (which is certainly possible).

 

Please have a little patience with the rebuild process, it WILL take some time as I'm attempting to juggle a lot of responsibilities right now.  I will do what I can to get things back up and running in a timely manner.

 

Notes About the Upcoming Site:

Our previous site was based on PHP-Nuke Platinum.  That content management system is severely dated, full of security holes and quite clunky to put it nicely.  On the other hand, it was easy to build extra features into it and it had a lot of features to begin with.  That made it the best choice at the time octofoil.org came to life.  However, with the lack of updates to the core code and unchecked security holes which have to be plugged with other software, it's time to move on.  So, given this opportunity, at this time, the best platform with which to rebuild is Joomla.  It offers flexibility, better security, great community support and a lot of the features that we did have with the old site.  A large number of major sites around the world use it such as CNN and MTV to name just two.  If you are involved in web design in anyway and would care to contribute please contact me for information on how you can assist with this rebuild.

 

Thank you!

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