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My apologies for that hour and a half or so of downtime this morning. Due to an inadvertent error, one of the tables in the ASF database became corrupted, and the entire database had to be restored from a backup.
We have lost a total of seven posts. However, I have copies of all the lost content. I will be contacting those members with lost posts by PM to send them copies of those posts should they wish to re-post them.
Everything should be back to normal now, so please commence posting!
We have lost a total of seven posts. However, I have copies of all the lost content. I will be contacting those members with lost posts by PM to send them copies of those posts should they wish to re-post them.
Everything should be back to normal now, so please commence posting!
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We have lost a total of seven posts. However, I have copies of all the lost content. I will be contacting those members with lost posts by PM to send them copies of those posts should they wish to re-post them.
Everything should be back to normal now, so please commence posting!
Lucky it was a quiet morning
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Lucky it was a quiet morning
Indeed.
I had the forum administrator version of a fat finger moment, and spent two hours cleaning up the mess.
Thankfully, no fortunes were lost as a result.
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Folks, my apologies for ASF being offline most of yesterday. Our host experienced a network outage and unfortunately it went on for about 18 hours from what I can tell. Anyway, we are back up again and hopefully everything should be OK from now on.
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...and we're back!
My apologies again for that couple of hours of downtime. ASF's host seems to be experiencing some hiccups of varying severity this weekend. Hopefully that will now be the end of it. ** Fingers Crossed **
My apologies again for that couple of hours of downtime. ASF's host seems to be experiencing some hiccups of varying severity this weekend. Hopefully that will now be the end of it. ** Fingers Crossed **
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sometimes half a doz a day
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Hi guys, I've turned off Cloudflare while I look into the issues you are experiencing. I must admit to having experienced it myself so I will investigate further and see what I can do about it.
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same here for the last couple of weeks, reload often works within minutes if not second
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it's happening here at the mcg, ritchie
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This should be fixed soon. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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Forum search is now back up and running.
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Sorry about that 30 minutes or so of downtime folks. I've been messing around with the software and had a fat finger moment.
Everything is back to normal now.
Everything is back to normal now.
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Hi everyone, sorry about the downtime tonight.
At some point around 6pm this evening ASF became the target of a DDoS attack engineered by persons unknown. I believe I know who they are, but I have no way of knowing for sure. It took the host almost six hours to mitigate the attack and that was the reason for the extended downtime this evening.
Let's try and get everything back to normal now and put this unfortunate incident behind us. Please keep posting and participating. Thanks.
At some point around 6pm this evening ASF became the target of a DDoS attack engineered by persons unknown. I believe I know who they are, but I have no way of knowing for sure. It took the host almost six hours to mitigate the attack and that was the reason for the extended downtime this evening.
Let's try and get everything back to normal now and put this unfortunate incident behind us. Please keep posting and participating. Thanks.
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That is both sad and alarming.
Are there ways to ensure they can't do it again or some authority to which information can be passed regarding those responsible?
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I'm about to hit the sack, but I'll be looking into various solutions tomorrow to see what can be done in the future. Something like this hasn't happened in many years, so I was caught off guard a little today.
It conveniently happened the day after I told some scammers based in Asia that I wouldn't be removing content that they found to be inconvenient and damaging to their scam.
So I suspect that the DDoS attack was initiated on their orders, but can't be 100% sure about that. If I am wrong, then the timing of all these various events was very odd indeed.
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Seeing I am in Thailand, I thought it was the Thai government blocking access to certain sites again.
Relieved to find it was nothing to do with comments in the KCN thread.
Relieved to find it was nothing to do with comments in the KCN thread.
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ASF remains under attack this morning. I'm doing what I can to get things under control, but please expect further downtime and potentially slow page loading times.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Please keep posting and participating. The only way to beat the kind of scumbags who do this is to carry on with business as usual and keep the community active.
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