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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... :guiness;

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 ;)

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 :evil: :geek:
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 :o