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The site was gone for three hours as the server was shut down, due to one site on it being ddosed. :king-twitter:

Members may have noticed that from 4.27am GMT the site was down. I sent in a ticket to URLJet, and was informed that the domain was not resolving to their servers, and that I should make sure the nameservers were pointing to them. Unfortunately, as those who read earlier reports may remember...

May we presume you know how counter-productive enthusiasm is to fastidious and occasionally obstinate intps ? Still, it's mostly a question of the link: html doesn't fit into vBulletin that easily. So I'll wait for J. or O. to advise.

Thanks, I'll consult with Jesin & Ogion first, then get back to you. On the admin panel, one goes to Styles & Templates/Style Manager; selects Edit Templates; then chooses the file to edit. Naturally, it's the navbar for the links above, but that code may not be correct for navbar links...

Guest Viewing resumed. Actually, may as well mention here the 'Big-vB Statistic', one of the German Hackmeister Coroner's modifications, is viewable only by members --- who so far couldn't view it since I had forgotten to mention the fact. Go to: http://www.intpforum.com/statistic.php ...

Because that's the way search engines find, collate and proffer content. They send billions of tiny mindless poorly paid bots to search through the web, interviewing sullen webpages. Think of it as market research.

Guest Viewing suspended again. We were getting 503 Server Busy errors, and I saw we had 10 x as many guests as members, which may --- or may not --- have something to do with it. As cannot be too often mentioned, most guests are not people therefore there was no rip in the continuum as a...

Well, we're safe for a year or two. VBulletin isn't going to send out a bug to wipe out all previous vBulletin versions: under the previous legal contract we can run 3.8.4 forever. Which in practical terms means about 5 - 8 years since computers by then will use 16GB to browse the web.

A list of hacks can be provided: Advanced BB Codes Toolbar 1.5b Add new bbcodes with a new toolbar inside the editor. Advanced Ip Ban Manager 0.3 Allows advanced management of IP bans. Ajax Poll Preview 0.5.5 Displays poll preview in FORUMSDISPLAY using jTip. AJAX...

The problem is not in converting; but in keeping the unique styles and hacks --- of which we have rather a lot. There are few proprietary brands; and of the free ones, most are dreck. Although Claver told me he has installed SMF forums before, and they offer a converter: at present only...

Past week or so vBulletin customers have been in an uproar since the new pricing structure was produced. Without a demo of 4 even being available, people were expected to send masses of money to vBulletin for future upgrades. It seems that Internet Brands/Jelsoft has cash-flow problems or...

Forum appears to have been down since 4pm GMT, judging by last post. I logged in at 6:30 pm and couldn't get through. I waited exactly two hours --- if one keeps retrying it blocks one's IP as above --- then sent a ticket in. They replied quickly asking what was the A Record IP, and I...

Having written to NameAlerts to ask how the dispute was going, they replied that I should have been contacted by ENOM Disputes, and was this not the case ? I replied that in no way had ENOM contacted me. I sincerely believe that American larger business and government is the least efficient...

I assume this is in reference to the High Score Type for each Game Highscore type high = highest score is champ low = lowest score is champ Imagining that any admin will consider typing through each game to reset the values after research to find out the best mode individually, instead of...

In the Arcade Panel it is set as out of the box with default options: there are options for Updating a/High Scores b/Best result c/League. Method of recording a user's score ( It is recommended to enable autopruning if set to save every score! ) = User's Highest Score / can be set to Save...

The default is still 50; 20,40.60,80,100 are the options.

Easily done. :moriyabig:

I've repaired and optimized the tables. Perhaps this has fixed something so odd.

Superstitious it may be, but I'll refrain from starting a formal Server Down thread to replace the last until it becomes imperative. However, the site was away from 9:30 am - 13:25 pm GMT this morning. URLJet 'unblocked the blocked IPs and rebooted the firewall'. It blocked me as well. The...

Guest Viewing has been restored --- the absence of which led to fewer guests, but more registrations, and did not cut down upon the excessive total of visitors; as has the Arcade. Both are subject to temporary withdrawal. :king-twitter: Videos were missing for an hour or so. This...

To try and conserve bandwidth until the move is completed, Guest viewing of the Forum will be barred. Pity, but desperate times, desperate measures.

Namecheap has not responded and maintains the privacy whois the thief set with them when he stole the site-name, so I have instructed NameAlerts to open a dispute with them to recover the domain. Emphasizing that I shall ask no questions if the person returns the domain unhurt. Apart from the...

Indeed. It is of course possible that we are sustaining a prolonged ddos attack --- not connected to the one that took down ASO in July --- which could account for the alarming number of 'guests', 2000 in a day sometimes; for the usage problems leading to suspensions; and for the...

After which the site ran out of bandwidth. Immediately posted a ticket, and it's taken four hours for them to reply. Contrary to my previous position I bought another 6GB --- seeing that the 4GB bought on the 27th lasted until those four hours ago, and that was with the place down for most...

For the latest update as to ASO Krazy Kops routine see: http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=4472 And note that nothing lasts forever. We must face infinity as brave men do. However you can also see that the forum will be away for up to 48 hours during the move, so find something...

OK, new thread for this: Last night the site was suspended for over usage etc. In all the following, you must imagine 3 - 5 hours between replies to tickets. Site suspended. Request for unsuspension. Reply 6 hours later that the site was suspended for running out of bandwidth. Pointed...

Does MrMolen play in the Arcade then ?

Actually Claverhouse, who works closely with me on this, told me that having a Twitter account used for nothing but updates on this forum during downtime, therefore barely seen --- http://twitter.com/Claverhouse --- mentioned that Richard began following him on that this morning. Which C...

Update: Actually, it's possible that the domain name is lost --- not that that is the end. My registrars NameAlerts replied: This domain expired in June 2009 and has subsequently been deleted in accordance with ICANN’s deletion procedure and then registered by a third party through...

Well, the 8 extra GB added on the 21st added to the 6 previous on the 17th ran out yesterday about 11 GMT. A few hours later ( 10pm their time) I sent a ticket to ASO asking for 4GB, which was soon answered by a tech moving the ticket to Billing to process. Although Billing is not at home on...

Members and viewers may have noticed the place was suspended for the previous 4 - 5 hours. I became aware whilst uploading a couple more smilies, when suddenly the FTP started logging and relogging in --- FileZilla being pretty bad, I scarcely considered it until I went back to the forum and...

We were AWOL for around --- by guess --- 2 hours due to a mysql crash on users. So I logged into PhpMyAdmin and repaired all the tables. Normally one would do this through vBulletin, yet the crash ensured that the Admin Panel was also affected... :smiley_emoticons_mr

This afternoon the bandwidth went again which means the extra 6GB bought on the 17th lasted nearly five days... This time a further 8GB was ordered which may last to the start of Oct or not. However after that Bernard coughed then went down again; first the HTTP, then the Mail ( which is not...

We mustn't be overbound by rules... merely everyone should be pleasant as far as possible. However, I shall move that thread of the Revised General Rules to Announcements and sticky it as you suggest --- together with the original General Rules, of which the Revision is a digest. Under all...

The forum was out of action due to being over bandwidth for approx 6 hours --- for half that time they did not respond to a ticket, no doubt since it was so early in Atlanta. We have gone through 25GB in 17 days... I blame the spiders.

Bernard was down for half an hour: however, that's nothing... As when Sherman went through where the servers now live, 95% of ASO's servers were out cold. Thanks to some technical stuff involving Techs Entering the Cage all is now restored to bucolic calm.

OK, I found a cure for both the font and the reversed box effect: from page 23 of the comments in the hack page I discovered someone else complaining about the thin font, and the hackmaster suggested adding <strong> to his code. Whilst doing this I glanced at the other link codes in the...

I only open the email client once a week... Rather more lazily I didn't open it for two months earlier this year: as a tip, 3000 emails take around 1.5 hours to download. Still, I had no idea the place was down. As I told Jesin earlier: if I don't stay awake the world ceases to exists...

If it was something in the last 6 hours, I was asleep and wasn't aware of it in that state. Worked when I left; worked when I came back.

Actually, if you mean the morning of the 8th GMT; the whole thing slowed immensely for me and there were CSS errors thrown about in the error log. However the server status was not down; my posts still got through --- even tho I had received warnings that they were over-time limit; and...

I see now you are addressing the appearance of the link itself in the navbar rather than the link as a thing in itself. Having explained that in the first post... annoyingly with the code provided, slightly different to the rest I would be grateful enough for anyone to modify this link code...

*sourly* I've worked --- very ineptly --- as illustrator in an archaeological office. Shards are incredibly dull except to trained archaeologists with the minds of gnats on crack. They also had a complete skeleton of some poor 14th century Scottish girl in a box in the storage area. I...

I gave up Private Eye 2 years ago as part of a drowning into depression and rebirth: I had taken it since I was 15. It seemed... stuck in the same old past I needed to discard. I also stopped reading any news at all, since those who scriptwrite the future had started recycling the same plots...

Simplest of all is to link to the hack itself, whereby members may work out exactly what they wish to do with it. Ultimate Gallery Lite. And yes, it is very sad to see the spelling Lite. However, at it's most basic: there is a public, free-for-all, gallery to which anyone may upload ---...

I know, it was left from the examples provided by the hack-master --- most of which were to do with the noble sport of hiking. I'll get round to taking it out later: one has to edit the template for each Style. I have no idea which Links were referenced, it being on a Link bar an' all...

Prettiness is Half the Battle in the Great Game of Life. Conform in which way ? When I open it it reveals... Of course, people have to actually upload things to their galleries... Most of vBull is like exploring an abandoned monastery: the promise is greater than the actuality...

I finally found a hack that adds an extra Navbar --- the list of links below the topmost bar --- which duplicates the original exactly. Thus it looks like a single navbar with two rows. This has freed up space upon the first, which previously had the Log Out link jutting to the right; and...

Interesting... Mind you, I discovered one such site which lost us 1000 entirely notional* dollars in one update. http://www.valuatemysite.com/www.intpforum.com Just now it's $4,061: before I hit update it was $5243. And it's estimating the value of all the non-existent adverts... *...

Well, firstly to deal with the truly lunatic numbers of spiders using bandwidth --- today's front page records 1425 visitors in the last 24 hours, and only identifies around 100 as spiders, which shows either we have a vast audience, considering about 110+ members visit each day, or that most...