Midnight EST, 09/21/10 - server upgrade

Um, we seem to have lost the last day or so.

yes, I was just noticing that as well.. the photos and messages I posted and received are now gone.. did we have to a system restore from a few days ago when the site was down today??

soooo, do I need to re-post all of that??

Originally Posted by Miss Tuniwha

yes, I was just noticing that as well.. the photos and messages I posted and received are now gone.. did we have to a system restore from a few days ago when the site was down today??

soooo, do I need to re-post all of that??

I lost some positive karma. Hopefully everything gets worked out and working smoothly.

Originally Posted by SERPENTS DEN

I lost some positive karma. Hopefully everything gets worked out and working smoothly.

I did too. Also, two 50-post pages of a BOI thread that shed some new light on the dispute are gone, and I'm sure everyone who put up or bumped ads in the last day is upset.

Any chance that, now that whatever error occurred has been rolled back, you can recover that data, Rich?

Originally Posted by SERPENTS DEN

I lost some positive karma. Hopefully everything gets worked out and working smoothly.

Yeah, me too. That must have been a pretty harsh crash.

I'd be really surprised if the missing data can be restored. If it could be, it would have been already. I'm guessing they had to go back a day or so to find a clean back-up.

Odd that it was here for a short bit when it came back online but then we flashed back a day or so.

It seemed to my limited understanding of computers, like a DOS.

A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers. The term is generally used with regards to computer networks, but is not limited to this field, for example, it is also used in reference to CPU resource management.[1] There are two general forms of DoS attacks: those that crash services and those that flood services.[2]

One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.

Well I just feel like I am having a flashback, again.

maybe that guy wasn't joking when he said someone was buying all the info for fauna.. LOLOL.. j/k

Usually, if it is a system restore.. then no, we won't get that info back.. but it was only a couple days, so hopefully nothing too important was lost

Chat also seems to be down.. what.. what.. what do I do now???? a night without fauna chat?? I.. I am lost.. MOMMY.. MOMMMYYYYYY... *cries*

Originally Posted by Miss Tuniwha

maybe that guy wasn't joking when he said someone was buying all the info for fauna.. LOLOL.. j/k

I thought the same thing.