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Started by Fancy Dan, Feb 07 2012 12:16 AM

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 12:16 AM

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I see the updates are already starting to appear, wondering what happened to TWHT this last week.

Truth is, I have no clue. I received an email from Chain on friday saying the site was down, and had been for a couple hours.

I logged into the admin panel to see an error saying that there was an "unfinished upgrade", which could mean one of two things; our database blew up or there was a security breach.

As far as I could tell, judging by the server's error log, either the site or our server's security was compromised. I'd been working for the past 2 days with our hosting company to restore the site as best i could, but I had no proper backup of the site since August last year so I had to manually repair the database to prevent data-loss. I've now upgraded our software (hence the new look), upgraded our database and took a good, complete full backup of the site.

I'm going to be working with Chain to get a system in place to maintain backups so that if this were to happen again, recovery time will be a minimum.

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 01:03 AM

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Thanks for the heads up dan! Glad to see TWHT is back! The new look is great, too bad it had to happen the bad way :l
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 01:28 AM

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Was wondering what was going on. Thanks for filling us in. New skin isn't bad!
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 02:02 AM

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Digging the new skin - and I'll plan to backup us weekly. I think that'll work.

Thanks, Dan, I was a Scary Mary without twht. You rock!
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 02:20 AM

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I am so glad that the site is back. I was starting to go through withdrawal. The new skin is AWESOME!
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 11:27 AM

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 11:40 AM

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I got an email seeing if I was able to get in. Of course I couldn't. So I tried today.. Wow I feel like I'm in a different place.
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 12:17 PM

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It does look different but I like it. I see instead of rep we have like.
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 04:07 PM

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Nice new look guys! I LIKE IT! Now if you EVER leave me without TWHT for 4 days again, there is gonna be HELL to pay! I am watching you Dan & CD!

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 04:23 PM

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View PostMarcel, on 07 February 2012 - 04:07 PM, said:

Nice new look guys! I LIKE IT! Now if you EVER leave me without TWHT for 4 days again, there is gonna be HELL to pay! I am watching you Dan & CD!

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I agree 100%!

Those 4 days were kind of torturous.
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 05:34 PM

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 05:47 PM

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View PostChaindrive, on 07 February 2012 - 05:34 PM, said:

  • How do you think I felt? I was in a panic.

lol....I bet CD! I was afraid I was never gonna see you all again!


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Posted 07 February 2012 - 06:52 PM

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View PostMarcel, on 07 February 2012 - 05:47 PM, said:


lol....I bet CD! I was afraid I was never gonna see you all again!


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Me too, I kept clicking on TwhT in my google bar, and i couldn't access the site, i started to freak out

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:17 PM

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^haha yeah. I tried it several times each day.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 05:30 AM

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i pretty much had a heart attack when it was down.
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