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Sumaleth · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:42 pm

You've probably noticed we lost everything since about August 2015.

I contacted the webhost to see if they knew what happened and it turned out they did: the raid array died. They installed new hardware and reinstalled a backup they were able to recover, which was unfortunately from August 2015.

Sad

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[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

The RAID array died but the FORUM lives on!

Tzan · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:22 pm

Oh well, I repaired my game thread.

whom · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:34 am

Are you aware that you are having downtime everyday now? For a period of several hours everyday Sijun is unreachable...

Sumaleth · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:21 am

I didn't know that. I'll check in more often and see if I can catch it down.
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whom · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 4:31 am

Seems better now but I will keep an eye every now and then...

But it has been a lot of downtime... Maybe someone else can confirm?

Anything in the logs Sumaleth?

Tzan · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:59 am

I did notice it over the last few weeks.
It happened several times that I saw.
But not in the last few days.

Sumaleth · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 4:10 am

Oh yeah, last week it was apparently down while I was away. There was a problem with an account spamming or something. It clogs up the system and then nothing can happen. Bleh.
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durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Lately it's been down at least once a week, often a couple days in a row. Latest was
about twelve hours ago.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Sumaleth · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:50 pm

The hosting service moved to a new datacenter to try and get away from these down times so the one yesterday was disappointing. But maybe it was just part of the move, not sure. We'll have to see how it goes in the coming weeks.
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whom · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 2:20 pm

still down time, several hours today.... something about "refused connection"... approx 5-6 hours ago...

Sumaleth · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:16 pm

Hmm, I missed that. Not good.
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whom · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 3:40 am

Is it the spamming still?

I have an idea if you are up for it..? We could maybe disable new members from enlisting that way to block spammers... or a new member enlisting policy, in perhaps 3 steps or something.
Just thinking out loud now though. Smile

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

More spam (nike/adidas) and a thought: I think posting three or four samples of your work
is a small price to pay when registering? That would weed them out?

Just a thought. Smile

Sumaleth · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 4:26 pm

They would just tweak the bots to add some random images during signup. Smile

I tweak the captcha code from time to time which stops them for a while, but they're good at learning the changes. If I had the time I'd try to replace the old phpBB system with a really good modern captcha.

But it's less work to delete and ban them.
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