Site Hacking & Downtime Today, August 13th

Discussion in 'General Community' started by Alex, Aug 13, 2007.

  1. Alex

    Alex Community Founder Staff Member

    Server was hit fairly hard, they got into the forum database and played with a few tables. I am in the midst of dealing with everything, and currently do not have a ETA for an uptime. We've been meaning to switch hosts, as this has happened before and is 100% not an issue on our end.

    For those curious, they initially edited the forumcache table. A category title was removed and replaced with a simple meta-tag refresh to this turkish URL. In the midst of resolving that issue, additional ones arose -- these are the ones we were diligently working on for the last several hours.

    The Bad: Our wonderful community was down all day. And now I refuse to eat Turkish food for a while.
    the Good: This accelerated what I already had planned this week. We have a new host, and we will be upgrading well beyond where we are currently! Our efforts are to make the move as smooth as possible, obviously there is always someone who gets stuck with a slow DNS ;)

    There are some smaller issues I am finishing up, like the missing category.

    Once again, I would like to apologize for the interruption of your regularly scheduled forum viewing.

    Regards,
    alex
     
  2. lostinthewoods

    lostinthewoods Frisco Tx Baller

    Good job bro :)
     
  3. wrxin8or

    wrxin8or Mullitt Staff Member

    fuckin turkish
     
  4. blindfold

    blindfold Active Member

    well done Admin ;)
     
  5. Weapon

    Weapon 90lbs of dynamite Supporting Member

    awesome
     
  6. Demo24

    Demo24 Member

    yay for new host! The previous one was kind of sketch in delivering service constantly I noticed recently.
     
  7. Alex

    Alex Community Founder Staff Member

    Yeah I cant explain that other than poor NOC.

    We'll be on the new one by Friday.
     
  8. kingwrex

    kingwrex Supporting Member

    cool, thanks for your haed work alex
     
  9. scooby_snacks

    scooby_snacks Active Member

    Nice work, looking forward to browsing on the new server. But seriously, why the fuck do you hack a local subaru website? I just don't get it.
     
  10. monk

    monk <b>The Kitchen Ninja!!!!</b>

    must be som kind of ring... last time i had one of my sites hit, it was also a turk group (or claimed to be)
     
  11. sti robot

    sti robot New Member

    3 or 4 years ago the same sort of thing happened on clubwrx
     
  12. rexrocker

    rexrocker Active Member

    Good work fearless leader. :bigthumb:
     
  13. clemsonscooby

    clemsonscooby Active Member

    Stupid turkey's, don't they know they are a bird, not a country.
     
  14. Jewels450

    Jewels450 Member

    I just thought Face had me blocked for posting too much. LOL
     
  15. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    :rofl::rofl::rofl:
     
  16. sti robot

    sti robot New Member

    So, is that why there is no newbie area/intro yourself area.

    I was going to update my thread. "Supposedly", I'm getting a call today about the offer, "supposedly".
     
  17. Alex

    Alex Community Founder Staff Member

    Thts the issue I will be address today :)
     
  18. cannarella

    cannarella Member

    You da man!!!
     
  19. Alex

    Alex Community Founder Staff Member

    If the forum randomly generates a php error or you see some sort of error above the header or if the categories do not worry.

    I am working out some kinks and they may poof momentarily :)
     

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