Minnesota Classic Glastron Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hyperacme on September 02, 2015, 12:46:29 PM
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Been down for a few hours now ...
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Wonder what's going on over there? Hope everything is ok.
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Globat has to be one of the most frustrating hosts to live with.
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OK ... 6:00 AM
Still down ... I'm getting worried ...
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You hearing anything Gregg?
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No ...
I'll shoot Chris an email ...
Rich ... do you know what's going on ?
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Chris's reply ...
" Minor issue. , will be back up soon. "
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I just tried calling the Globat phone number, can't get through.
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I just tried calling the Globat phone number, can't get through.
Oh, are you helping Chris now?
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It's back !
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Down again now. I shot Chris an email yesterday, said they were working on it. (Big changes coming.)
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Do a refresh Mark ... They've been online all morning ...
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I am on from a thread notice. I still can not get on through the direct link even after deleting board cookies. I hope the big changes are a new host, Globat has not been good.
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I'm not having any problems, can bounce from home page to forum and back, in and out from threads, bookmark/favorite works fine ...
Add a new bookmark/favorite and see if that works ...
I hope more pictures aren't lost ... The "Projects in Progress" section is lost so much info with out picture.
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That worked, I added index.php to my bookmark and am in.
Pressing the "main message board" button on the homepage still is non-op for me.
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And yes, loosing all the attachments truly hurts since there has been allot of good reference material there.
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I see pictures in the Projects thread?
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All the pictures from all the threads ?
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I see pictures in the Projects thread?
All the attached pictures are gone.
I host my own pictures and have no loss in my thread other than the few that were attached by others.
Anyone else using outside hosts, at least the hosts that have not gone down in the recent years are still there. Sites like Imageshack that have killed off much of their hosting have done no one any good.
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Loss of pictures have rendered some very good rebuild threads almost useless ...
We suffered the same loss of attached pictures after the last forum software update, BUT it had to be done ...
I tried hosting every ones (on this forum) pictures on Photobucket, but with the amount of pictures and bandwidth I would have had to upgrade my account to a paid account, and Photobucket is "Flaky" at best ...
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Loss of pictures have rendered some very good rebuild threads almost useless ...
We suffered the same loss of attached pictures after the last forum software update, BUT it had to be done ...
I tried hosting every ones (on this forum) pictures on Photobucket, but with the amount of pictures and bandwidth I would have had to upgrade my account to a paid account, and Photobucket is "Flaky" at best ...
Yeah, the sad thing is that the pictures are still there, the links to them on the server were broken. So its really just an image repository at that point.
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Yeah, the sad thing is that the pictures are still there, the links to them on the server were broken. So its really just an image repository at that point.
And with that being the case it is up to each person to spend the time to restore their thread. I did so for the few attached pictures in my postings because I like to keep things complete.
I host 4 forums and do not have allot of room for attachments. It is interesting how simple some things must be for people to post in there thread that they need the simplicity of attachments. Damn if they are not willing to clean up there own space.
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We're fortunate in that we have unlimited space.
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Do a refresh Mark ... They've been online all morning ...
That worked, thanks Gregg. I forgot the cardinal rule in our IT department, "reboot, refresh, then call if it still doesn't work!" :o
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I host 4 forums and do not have allot of room for attachments. It is interesting how simple some things must be for people to post in there thread that they need the simplicity of attachments. Damn if they are not willing to clean up there own space.
Honestly, attaching files to the forum thread vs. using a hosted solution is more stable and 'better' long term IMO. Google Photos/Picasa has a history of refreshing/regenerating the hosted picture links which destroys threads in an instant without anything to do with the forum. Photobucket, heck they all do, has done the same thing. Its a 'pick your poison' decision.
Attachments & Avatars were broken when I moved us to fresh copy of SMF. We were on a locked down/crippled version that 1&1 promotes as a quick and easy way to host a website/forum without having to know anything about the technologies that support it. Pretty sure my bin/ASCII flag was wrong when I did the migration, but it was too late to fix it when I figured it out...would have lost new data to do it.
However, that move allowed us to add several plugin's that have (knock on wood) so far kept the spammers/hackers at bay, and at the same time, allowed us to stay current on security patches.
We all know its only a matter of time...we will get hacked at some point as nothing is secure on the internet. We can only plug the holes as patches are issued and block IP's we don't like...and we have entire portions of the world blocked at this point.
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We can only plug the holes as patches are issued and block IP's we don't like...and we have entire portions of the world blocked at this point.
I use space ISP provides to host my images. I do not like the image hosting services, I bet I have a bunch of images on Picassa somewhere, no clue where they went. I had a hundred sunrise and fall color images up on Google Earth, no clue where they went or how to access them.
I gave up with most of the IP blocking I did, I have a number of members from OZ and NZ that when I did country wide blocks covering China, some of those guy could not get to the site, server is in Texas.
I now block addresses such as *@ymail.net. Having watched one hacker trying to register and his IP was coming from many different countries I released the IP blocks and went for the common source hosts. The biggest problem source currently is yahoo but they have not made it very far getting through and I have a few member using Yahoo and do not want to cut them out. For now my workload is low and the sites are clean.
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It's like deja vu all over again ...
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If the pictures are all gone users need to be realistic and just me honest with themselves and abandon all hope and move on.
Personally I host pics in a few different ways. Yea I'd rather host directly on the forum but photobucket does get used occasionally to host some pics. My first web site hosts a few things but getting them uploaded is hard. I prefer to use my latest website/host to host the pics. I have full control that way.
I think we all would have been better off creating our own blog to allow others to follow our project process.
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I'm getting " 504 Gateway Time-out " & " 502 Bad Gateway " ?
EDIT ...
It's back, maybe it was just me & my browser ?
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That has not been uncommon for the last half year, should be able to go to the main page or back to the thread you were on.
I just moved around cleanly.
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Is it just me or is CGOA down again? I am hoping they are changing hosts?
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Yep !
I'm seeing this ...
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]
User toddkimball already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections [1203]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
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SQL ERROR for me to, all day. Do you know if the changes spoken of may be a host, or server change? This one sure has not been good.
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That's not a "changing hosts" error... a DoS attack possibly.
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The CGOA home page is still up, but forum is still down ...
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It's back ... again ...
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Umm, yes I had not thought to check this morning.
Looks like I was the last one to post before it went down, Humm.