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by Themicles
Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Potential Power Outage October 10th
Replies: 1
Views: 645

Re: Potential Power Outage October 10th

This time frame has come and gone. However people in the area of the map marked as being affected have reported never losing power. I will report back if I find out it has been rescheduled.
by Themicles
Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Potential Power Outage October 10th
Replies: 1
Views: 645

Potential Power Outage October 10th

Our power company has alerted our village that there will be a planned power outage on October 10th from 10am EST to approximately noon. That said, the outage map they published has the entire outage zone on the South side of the lake. We're on the North side. As such I am not planning to shut the s...
by Themicles
Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Scheduled Website Downtime **Complete**
Replies: 0
Views: 1981

Scheduled Website Downtime **Complete**

The forums on this site will be disabled at 10pm EDT for both forum and back end upgrades. Once the upgrades are complete, the forum will be back online. If you are using a theme other than default, you will be reset to the default theme. No new themes will be available at the time of the upgrade. 1...
by Themicles
Wed Apr 19, 2023 2:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: Incoming Forum Update
Replies: 1
Views: 263

Incoming Forum Update

With backend updates on the webhost, we are going to have to move to the latest 3.3.x branch of phpBB. Over the next couple of days, I will be updating the forums I host one at a time on development copies, and then once I am sure everything works, publishing them to Live one at a time. This will, j...
by Themicles
Wed May 05, 2021 9:44 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Temporary Downtime **Complete**
Replies: 1
Views: 3485

Re: Temporary Downtime **Complete**

Servers are back up, thanks go to Rudiki for help testing. The router I switched everything to was preconfigured for just such an event as this, however it turns out the firmware it was on resulted in the firewall blocking even configured port forward rules. Updating the firmware appears to have fix...
by Themicles
Wed May 05, 2021 7:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Temporary Downtime **Complete**
Replies: 1
Views: 3485

Temporary Downtime **Complete**

Apologies for the unscheduled downtime. We suffered a direct, but likely random hack on our network today. It was detected immediately and the connections severed. This is why the servers went down. The network has been reconfigured to prevent another attempt and I am currently just scanning all com...
by Themicles
Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: More Whack-a-mole
Replies: 1
Views: 2001

More Whack-a-mole

Updated e-mail domain ban lists, banned more spammers found in known spammer databases. Banned more spammers that used the Signature field of the profile. Inspected more suspected spammers. Thank you to the moderators keeping up with reports. The tools we have aren't perfect (would prefer one click ...
by Themicles
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:00 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Users and Permissions
Replies: 0
Views: 2514

New Users and Permissions

I have changed the New User post limit to an undisclosed number to prevent access to certain permissions. These days only the most sophisticated bots that require a bot runner's interaction can get in here. And they do, more so than I'd like. These new settings should give us a better chance of forc...
by Themicles
Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:20 pm
Forum: News
Topic: User Registrations Fully Re-opened (And spambot info)
Replies: 0
Views: 7858

User Registrations Fully Re-opened (And spambot info)

For the last few years, new user registrations on this website have been required to go through admin activation. With the latest updates to phpBB, we are now able to use reCaptcha V2 ("I am not a robot"). Sadly, it does not yet support V3, so some spammers still get through. To counter th...
by Themicles
Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Forum Update COMPLETE
Replies: 2
Views: 6420

Re: Forum Update COMPLETE

As part of this forum update, I have been taking the time to clear out all of the 50,000+ inactive users. 99% of which were spambots, with only a few being old accounts that were just never ever used. This had to be done initially 500 at a time, then finally 900 at a time as I tested the query limit...
by Themicles
Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:22 am
Forum: News
Topic: Forum Update COMPLETE
Replies: 2
Views: 6420

Re: Forum Update COMPLETE

Forum update is complete. This site is now running phpBB 3.2.8 on PHP 7.2. The default Style is prosilver A darker version: Prosilver (Dark Edition) And a cleaner version: prosilver Special Edition You can change your style by clicking your username and selecting User Control Panel. In there select ...
by Themicles
Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:30 am
Forum: News
Topic: Forum Update COMPLETE
Replies: 2
Views: 6420

Forum Update COMPLETE

***Original Message*** The hosting provider I use is forcing the upgrade to PHP 7.2 any day/moment now. I was investigating the upgrade path yesterday when I broke the live forums on accident, when intending to test on a dev copy first. Long story short, it was 12 hours of hell yesterday getting the...
by Themicles
Fri Nov 23, 2018 11:54 am
Forum: News
Topic: Experienced Short Outage this Morning
Replies: 0
Views: 4133

Experienced Short Outage this Morning

At around 5:30am the servers went down. When the others came back up, Phoenix (database) did not. A quick investigation revealed a bad power supply that was just waiting for the next power cycle to not turn back on. We were prepared for something like this and kept a spare power supply on hand. We n...
by Themicles
Thu May 31, 2018 2:47 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Servers: Line Switch back to DSL
Replies: 0
Views: 4666

Servers: Line Switch back to DSL

The DSL is back up and we rearranged our service to drop the phone number, drop the bill cost and increase the bandwidth.

I am swapping the servers back onto the DSL today.

The previous report regarding this situation was here.
by Themicles
Thu May 24, 2018 5:14 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New outage, servers are back up. See details
Replies: 1
Views: 3849

New outage, servers are back up. See details

Sorry about the new outage this morning. This one is completely out of my hands this time. There is some issue in the neighborhood that keeps knocking out our power and the cable internet with it and by that I do not mean that our modems are going down. I mean that our modems aren't even getting sig...
by Themicles
Thu May 24, 2018 4:25 am
Forum: News
Topic: Outage is over. Servers are up!
Replies: 1
Views: 2827

Re: Outage

Ysgard/Hala and Tairis are up. Vaultster remains to be tested, but ought to work. I'll test it here in the next few minutes. It turned out I did need Avlis' help troubleshooting the Alpha connection, but in the end the problem was here. The modem had gotten reset and was no longer in bridged mode. S...
by Themicles
Tue May 22, 2018 9:59 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Outage is over. Servers are up!
Replies: 1
Views: 2827

Outage is over. Servers are up!

At around 5pm today both of our internet services (cable and DSL) went out at about the same time. We have restored the cable service, but are still working on the DSL. The game servers are hosted on the DSL.

I will update here and Discord when I have more information.
by Themicles
Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Forum Update Plans
Replies: 0
Views: 6448

Forum Update Plans

Sometime over the next month or two I am planning to update the phpBB forum software that we use here. Many of you may have noticed that I had to switch new registrations to Admin approval. This was done because we were getting absolutely flooded with spambots no matter what I did with the counterme...
by Themicles
Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ysgard down
Replies: 20
Views: 13934

Re: Ysgard down

I am aware of the issue, and am working on it. Guys, please, I don't need 6 different sources reporting the same thing. I got a ping on IRC, a report in IRC, a message on Discord, a PM here, this post here, and even people reporting in the Avlis chats where it doesn't belong. Now that said, I realiz...
by Themicles
Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Server Reboot: COMPLETE
Replies: 0
Views: 5865

Server Reboot: COMPLETE

EDIT: Poseidon is rebooted and the servers are back up fresh. I am rebooting Poseidon for maintenance (and troubleshooting) reasons. It has been up for an awfully long time. Poseidon has been up for 311 days, 21 hours so far. Server processes were at 458 hours. I have left Hala running until it cle...
by Themicles
Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:58 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Unplanned Downtime: Phoenix shutdown unexpectedly **Fixed**
Replies: 2
Views: 3341

Re: Unplanned Downtime: Poseidon has shutdown unexpectedly

Both Hala and Ysgard are back online now.
by Themicles
Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:53 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Unplanned Downtime: Phoenix shutdown unexpectedly **Fixed**
Replies: 2
Views: 3341

Re: Unplanned Downtime: Poseidon has shutdown unexpectedly

Well that was special... Comcast modem crashed while I was working on this too! :x

Working on bringing things back online now.
by Themicles
Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:39 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Unplanned Downtime: Phoenix shutdown unexpectedly **Fixed**
Replies: 2
Views: 3341

Unplanned Downtime: Phoenix shutdown unexpectedly **Fixed**

Phoenix, our database server, was off when I looked down just now. I'm attempting to restart and diagnose. Please be patient while I work on getting everything back online.
by Themicles
Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:09 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Unplanned Downtime: Network Switch Failure **COMPLETE**
Replies: 4
Views: 4618

Re: Unplanned Downtime: Network Switch Failure **COMPLETE**

For the curious, the new switch is:
TP-Link TL-SG1016
16 ports
10/100/1000
Full duplex
Unmanaged
Rack mounted
by Themicles
Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Unplanned Downtime: Network Switch Failure **COMPLETE**
Replies: 4
Views: 4618

Re: Unplanned Downtime: Network Switch Failure **COMPLETE**

New network switch is installed. Servers are back online. Please report here if there are further connectivity issues.