Primetime Central

Trivia

• PTC was originally hosted at Steelramp.com. The primetimecentral.net domain and hosting was obtained after Steelramp owners disabled the account without notice.
• Primetimecentral.com was purchased much later, to stop a repeat of the fedwars.com / fedwars.net / fedwars.org fiasco.
• PTC has also been hosted at wrestleonline.org, and ewce.com.
• When PTC opened, it had a website as well as forums. Who knew?
• At the very height of its popularity, PTC had between 300 and 400 unique registered members visiting every day.
• PTC has a long-standing reputation for heavy moderation and banning members. It must have worked because there was a grand total of 2 trashbinned posts for the entire 2007 calendar year, and since 2003 only 8 people have earned permanent life bans. 2001 to 2002 would have seen 8 bans a week.
• A day and a half of down time on a shared host caused PTC to be moved onto a real self-managed server. Sadly, data centers are not invincible and PTC still gets one or two 6 hour outages a year.
• PTC was opened after Fedwars closed for the second time. Fedwars later reopened and the two (or is it three? Fedwars always was a bit schizophrenic...) sites actively competed with each other.
• PTC outlasted many incarnations of Fedwars, Revolution Studios, Revolution Wrestling and Project Xero.
• Revolution Studios was opened after its owners were kicked out of PTC when one of them vandalized PTC's site whilst being a PTC Fed Head. Too many bruskies, not enough brains, as the same guy later went on to delete the entire website of his own fed and try and blame PTC for it.
• During its life, PTC has used IkonBoard, T-Forum, PHPBB, IPB and VBulletin forums. Once you've used a legal copy of VBulletin, you can NEVER go back.
• The first two years of posts at PTC has been lost, but the current forums retain 95+% of all posts since September 2003.
• ewcentral.com, ewplanet.org and fedwars.net used to redirect to PTC. PTC staff found it faintly amusing to have fedwars.net email addresses.
• wrestleonline.net and wrestleonline.org still redirect to PTC. 16 bucks a year worth of sentimentality right there.
• ewplanet.com and ew-news.com could be redirected to PTC, but this has not been done out of respect to the original sites, and because nobody really wants to see them reopened by anyone other than the original owners. ewplanet.com did get a temporary redirection to ewn when they managed to lose their own domain.
• PTC was almost rebranded as ewcentral.com after GTT5. Fortunately, sanity prevailed. ewcentral.com would probably be still be pointing at PTC waiting for something to be done with it if the former owner hadn't neglected to renew it.
• PTC and WO were collectively called ew24-7. Difficulties in prizing the ew24-7.com domain name back from a shonky host prevented this model from progressing to its intended destination.
• The layout for PTC's new website was completed in 2004. Coding for the site has thus far not finished (four years and counting). The banner for the new website can be seen over the interfed closure notice that is currently up on the main page. It'll eventually be replaced with something newer, one day.
• Both PCW and PTC Radio were originally hosted on Fancast. PTC Radio is now ran using Shoutcast software from PTC's own server.
• While PTC has had several owners and senior staff members, the interfed never closed between 2001 and 2007, other than a brief reset during 2003 when ownership changed hands, to give feds a chance to leave gracefully if they didn't like the new setup.
• During its life, PTC has never been hacked - self inflicted or otherwise. The closest to a hacking was the vandalism incident by an unhappy fedhead in 2002.
• The PTC Forums were upgraded to VBulletin 3.7 on 30 April 2008.