What's been going on with the forum then?

[Whyme]

Good luck Dan and the double clever people on the team, Looks like its been a grueler.

 

[Leo21]

Have you tried one of them clever electricians? Bet they could sort it.

 

[mountainman]

Good luck Dan and the double clever people on the team, Looks like its been a grueler.

I couldn't agree more mate.
I was directed to the sparkies forum earlier, I'm still traumatized!

 

[Riley]

That'll be a DNS cache issue.

Unfortunately every time we're offline for a bit, if your IPS or network or whatever takes a cache of the site while it's down, sometimes it'll load you that version even when it's actually back online.

Those sorts of things just iron themselves out as new cache versions are taken.

But we have been offline a here and there today since about 5pm

Cheers Dan

 

[Ermintrude]

Tapatalk is not working properly any hints?

 

[Riley]

I couldn't agree more mate.
I was directed to the sparkies forum earlier, I'm still traumatized!

Can't think of anything worse

 

[Toxic Ted]

I couldn't agree more mate.
I was directed to the sparkies forum earlier, I'm still traumatized!

Should have played some games when you were there...........

 

[mountainman]

Can't think of anything worse

How about the tilers technical thread.
Very lonely in there!

 

[Whyme]

i was on it milling around for an hour. felt a bit too far from home and too civilized..

 

[Ermintrude]

TT any tips?

 

[JCplumb]

My guess is it's a DDOS ransom attack, it won't be long before some keyboard warrior is asking for some money to stop/help with these attacks.
Make sure you offer to pay him in cash and we'll all turn up to pay the geeky little ****er what he's asked for - only not in sterling...

 

[galaxy_plumbing]

i cant make new thread, keep getting msg that i was blocked.

 

[Dan]

Looking into the blocked thing now. We just need to relax the settings a little but am checking on how far we dare to go.

It's obviously a national holiday in the USA today (independence day) so support replies are very slow. I might need to pick this back up again on monday.

 

[kris]

Well done dan for getting us back up and running. You deserve a medal. Il get you a drink in the arms later if you have time...

 

[northstar]

it seems to be hard battle this Dan, has the war been won against these pests ?

 

[zeebeedee]

Probably a fat 50 yr old that's never left his mum's basement in the last 10 yrs.

 

[Dan]

Yup, we've won.

We've been getting attacks off and on and you wouldn't even notice it website-wise now.

I need to reconfigure a few things like image uploading for newbies, email notifications via Amazon SES, and some other things (take them off-site to spread the load), and that's it we're back to normal then.

You might find the odd half hour or 15 minutes downtime if we get a massive attack while we configure the brand new server. My guy has spent 12 hours configuring firewalls and ports and things I didn't know existed until yesterday. But we need to see some attacks to route them and whatnot. So far they've not been strong enough to do anything and we've routed them fine. But if they pull some massive random thing off, it'll just be 10 minutes or so while we sod it off and we'll be back online.

Seems we're okay now though.

 

[SimonG]

So is it a targeted thing at your sites or just somebody just trying to invade the world?

 

[Dan]

No it's targeted right at me mate. Not sure why. Or who.

The problem and the solution is the same whether it's the Chinese government, Anonymous hacking group, or some spotty little pr1ck in his bedroom. So I've given up guessing now and just sorted it out.

I was seriously expecting a ransom demand. But they took my emails out so maybe they couldn't contact me haha (joke, my phone numbers are everywhere).

 

[SimonG]

Thats a bit sh!tty then. Some real saddos out there in the world, shame they dont have something better to do.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits.

 

[Dan]

pmsl

Yeah. ^ What he said.

 

[Leo21]

I reckon it might have been System3.

 

[zeebeedee]

Probably a rival forum. What else would they achieve from it?

 

[SafeGasInstall]

So basically you were on Holliday again on the beach and after partying for so long you lost all your belongings and could not return quicker to uk to press the reset bottom on your fan that's cooling down your computer system !!!!!??? Not good Dan lol

 

[SafeGasInstall]

I reckon it might have been System3.

Freeeeeeedoooooooommmmmm

 

[mfgs]

Seems a bit odd to be targeted, you annoyed any computer geniuses recently?

 

[SafeGasInstall]

No it's targeted right at me mate. Not sure why. Or who.

The problem and the solution is the same whether it's the Chinese government, Anonymous hacking group, or some spotty little pr1ck in his bedroom. So I've given up guessing now and just sorted it out.

I was seriously expecting a ransom demand. But they took my emails out so maybe they couldn't contact me haha (joke, my phone numbers are everywhere).

they are all fighting for freeweeeedooooom lol

 

[Leo21]

Freeeeeeedoooooooommmmmm

in my minds eye.

 

[Dan]

Email notifications are now back up and running. In fact all emails should now be working fine.

 

[Chalked]

Mine is back to normal,

cheers dan for the hard work.

 

[Leo21]

Hey Dan, you've got to be asking yourself "is it worth it"

 

[Dan]

Hey Dan, you've got to be asking yourself "is it worth it"

Never entered my head pal.
Forums are my thing. Not sure I'd feel complete without logging in some forums I own. When I visit other peoples forums it just doesn't feel the same. I'd be really jealous if I sold these forums and kept seeing them when I'm searching for plumbing, electrical or tiling advice.

 

[kris]

Never entered my head pal.
Forums are my thing. Not sure I'd feel complete without logging in some forums I own. When I visit other peoples forums it just doesn't feel the same. I'd be really jealous if I sold these forums and kept seeing them when I'm searching for plumbing, electrical or tiling advice.

Here here Dan LONG LIVE YOUR FORUM.

 

[Dan]

Seems a bit odd to be targeted, you annoyed any computer geniuses recently?

Must have done.

The thing is, I don't have much to do with the runnings of the forums these days. My job is to keep them online and do all the backend stuff (which if you don't ever notice any problems, it's usually because I've worked on them - not that we have none). And obviously arrange advertising etc here and there.

So if somebody is annoyed with a forum, it's probably the result of firstly a bunch of members picking on them, then a moderator banning them, then me ignoring their complaint emails. More-so than me physically annoying somebody.

 

[Riley]

So what your saying is you're blaming Croppie :wink: