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Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 5:42 pm
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
Sorry Clothy, no spike in lurkers. Hanging around 50 per usual. Just a hiccup somewhere down the line, it happens sometimes. I often think it is a miracle the web works at all. Anyway seems to have cleared now.
Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 5:46 pm
by Cloth-Ears
Well, it must have been my aura then. Electricity going haywire in my wake. Maybe Serge could explain it.
Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 6:01 pm
by jammy395
Cloth-Ears wrote:Well, it must have been my aura then. Electricity going haywire in my wake. Maybe Serge could explain it.
Serge couldnt explain why a foot is in fact 12 inches.....He would Measure it, then declare it wouldn't fit into a size 4 shoe.
Fukin Measurement Monkey........And Serge aint fukin here, so jog on, ask him, then jog back and let us know...
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Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 8:41 pm
by terrybooth
SQLi 1040 error appears to be a hosting problem. Has it now gone away?
Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 8:43 pm
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
Yes
Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 8:44 am
by alfer
Well done Terry for getting whatever was needed to be done - done.
Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 8:51 am
by terrybooth
The hosting provider experienced a Distributed Denial of Service attack last week. What this means is that someone directs so much internet traffic at a site that it fails to respond. That particularly affected this site (because other sites we have hosted there were not affected at the same time). I was told yesterday that this site had been hacked. By the look of it by someone who's purpose was to push spam. So I'm guessing that the DDOS attack was a cover to crack the hosting of the site. To recover, we've had to go back to 17th May. So apologies for missing posts and a couple of missing memberships.
I shall be at the hosting suppliers to find out what they are doing to prevent this happening again.
Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 9:18 am
by Daniel Quinn
o bugger , I thought my time machine had worked
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Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:13 am
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
Problem not solved, bit of a disaster really. Only the portal page is loading correctly. I thought we had back up of content.
Re: Site Maintenance
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:56 am
by rikardo1979
real uncovinience finding all my "informative" posts gone and my account removed this morning
Glad you have sorted out this isse (at least for now and for big price paid)
Im surprised you have no backup of database. Well you have but thats 6 days old
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