Hi

Sorry for not responding sooner. The site had a outage due to some hardware issues at the host that they resolved. I haven't heard of any 404 pages and am getting regular signups. If you two want to try it again, I will give you free memberships so you can check it out. PM me your use name if you sign up and I will take care of it.

I first did the site two years ago in Joomla using a template which required many plugins to accomplish what I wanted that were not fully functional and always had conflicts so I dropped that. I wasted a lot of time and money on that. Then I decided to try Wordpress as there were more dating templates and the plugins were better formed but buddy press is a super drag on load times. I went ahead and launched it but from the start I had tons of complaints due to the load time (8+ seconds per page). I was on a shared hosting with hostgator but it put a huge load on the server so I signed up with an adult host and promptly crashed the site as it required 8 gigs of Ram just to load and was no faster but was paying $150 per month for a dedicated server.

Last year I had bought emeeting dating software. Its an old php dating software package that looks old and doesnt have much in the way of options, looks or extras. The one thing it does have it the ability to handle seemingly an unlimited number of customers with no change in load times. It runs approximately 2 seconds on a page speed test and has no obvious slowdowns. I loaded that on my .net version of the site, moved everyone over as best I could and haven't had many issues since. The only down side so far is that if you have an issue, support is pretty lame. They recently were bought by someone else and there hasn't been any software updates in over 18 months and the mobile version is crappy and missing important functionality (the ability to upload via mobile, etc).

I looked into Skadate and all the other packages and they didn't seem to be any better but will say that emeeting is getting the job done. I would like to have the look updated and several options that are standard on any dating site (coupons, better chat, activity wall) but for now everyone is happy and signups are pretty consistent.

Let me know if I can answer any other questions

Jon