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!