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Title: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: teesquare on December 13, 2020, 04:51:17 PM
I swear I paid the light bill folks.... ;D

Actually - we had a software crash. Has not happened before. Previous and comparatively brief outages were caused by our hosting service performing "pre-failure" maintenance - which was removing and replacing hard drives which were at the end of their life cycle. This time, because it was not the hosting service - we did not have a back up of the site that was recent -as in - same day. So - it took a couple of days and multiple phone calls - but finally the hosting service was able to get us re-booted. I have purchased a daily backup service now - so that should we ever experience any outage again, we have a current copy of all the posts and will not lose anything. So - if you had post that were made between Dec. 3 and today - please re-post them.

Thanks
T
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: RG on December 13, 2020, 05:08:12 PM
Glad it's back, I was having withdrawals! LOL
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: teesquare on December 13, 2020, 05:22:04 PM
It was a scare for me, because I really did not know HOW it could have happened. But, I suppose  - we are back and that is good. ;D
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: TMB on December 13, 2020, 05:39:39 PM
Yep all good now but the other morning was scary     It almost looked like it was hacked and taken off line


But all  good now so big relief  :D
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: old sarge on December 13, 2020, 05:53:45 PM
I thought the new world order and the great reset had kicked in and outlawed BBQ! Glad to see everything up and running.
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: HighOnSmoke on December 13, 2020, 07:20:07 PM
I just need to add that any NEW members from after the 3rd of December until today will need to reapply and get approved again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: CDN Smoker on December 13, 2020, 07:20:25 PM
Glad it's all good that scared the you know what out of me.

I'm sure it's the same for everyone else I don't get over here as much as I want. Life just gets in the way.

Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: sliding_billy on December 14, 2020, 12:38:43 AM
I came THIS CLOSE to sending you a text message or calling you, LOL!
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: Ka Honu on December 14, 2020, 01:56:21 AM
... if you had post that were made between Dec. 3 and today - please re-post...

Yeah, right. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning. Just credit me with a dozen or so brilliantly pithy comments and we'll call it even.
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: Lines on December 14, 2020, 07:53:02 AM
I thought the new world order and the great reset had kicked in and outlawed BBQ! Glad to see everything up and running.
Maybe not too far from the truth Old Sarge.
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: Tailgating is my game on December 14, 2020, 09:09:02 AM
Man I thought Pappy did not pay his bill again as I know his monthly check keeps us going.
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: teesquare on December 14, 2020, 12:47:41 PM
Man I thought Pappy did not pay his bill again as I know his monthly check keeps us going.

 :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: stalag on December 14, 2020, 02:38:24 PM
On a serious note, how much of this is due to needing upgrades with the software the forum runs on?  Are we fully up to date on the latest?

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=571067.0

Note the latest stable is 2.0.17 (2020) and down below it is indicated that we are on 2.0.3 (2012) still.  Are you sure we did not get hacked due to a known vulnerability that was patched in a later revision?
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: TMB on December 14, 2020, 03:11:44 PM
On a serious note, how much of this is due to needing upgrades with the software the forum runs on?  Are we fully up to date on the latest?

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=571067.0

Note the latest stable is 2.0.17 (2020) and down below it is indicated that we are on 2.0.3 (2012) still.  Are you sure we did not get hacked due to a known vulnerability that was patched in a later revision?
Good point.. the letstalklowcarb is running 2.0.17 and no issues at all 
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: Big Dawg on December 14, 2020, 05:25:48 PM
I thought the new world order and the great reset had kicked in and outlawed BBQ! Glad to see everything up and running.

I just figured that someone posted a link to a NY Post article and either Dorsey or Zuckerberg had clamped down on us . . . . . .





BD
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: Lines on December 15, 2020, 12:04:01 AM
 :thinking:
I thought the new world order and the great reset had kicked in and outlawed BBQ! Glad to see everything up and running.

I just figured that someone posted a link to a NY Post article and either Dorsey or Zuckerberg had clamped down on us . . . . . .





BD
:thinking:
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: smokeasaurus on December 15, 2020, 12:22:20 PM
I thought Pappy didn't pay his monthly membership  :D
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: sparky on December 15, 2020, 06:18:23 PM
I thought pappy didn't pay his dues.
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: Big Dawg on December 16, 2020, 06:10:29 PM
Man I thought Pappy did not pay his bill again as I know his monthly check keeps us going.

I thought Pappy didn't pay his monthly membership  :D

I thought pappy didn't pay his dues.

Hey Pappy, pay your daggone dues ! ! !





BD
Title: Re: RECENT SITE OUTAGE EXPLANATION
Post by: Lines on December 17, 2020, 08:04:11 AM
Man I thought Pappy did not pay his bill again as I know his monthly check keeps us going.

I thought Pappy didn't pay his monthly membership  :D

I thought pappy didn't pay his dues.

Hey Pappy, pay your daggone dues ! ! !





BD
Do you need some help Pappy? ;D  Waiting on your stimulus check?