Chris Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Over the last 48 hours I've had some major problems with my personal server (don't worry, not the one TGTAP is hosted on) and as such, ALL of my websites except TGTAP are down, some will unfortunately, never come back. This is due to third party software used by the hosting company falling victim to a 0-day exploit found in the latest update of the software. As such, nothing could really be done to stop the hacker from deleting everything. Over 100,000 sites were taken offline in the attack, which if you are interested you can read about here. Normally I would just restore backups, but as it happens I don't have any recent ones for the database of my sites, I have all the static files, and most images, but not the databases, which without, the sites are useless. So how's the TGTAP network affected? AlanWake.co.uk - No database - forums and news are gone. I have majority of files still. Possible relaunch in the next few months. LANoire.net - No database - all news gone. Was just a wordpress blog, but with lack of news on the game we probably won't bother relaunching it unless it looks like it's gonna be big. PayneKillers - Is ok - we put this on TGTAP's server so thankfully it is completely unaffected by all this OFP2:DR -Is ok - my friend hosts this on his own server so that site is fine too Of my other websites: ImageLodge.net - Probably the biggest and most inconvenient loss due to it's growing popularity, this was getting quite a lot of images uploaded everyday but they are now all gone. A relaunch is possible but would mean starting from scratch. Not entirely sure if it's worth it right now as it was a useful site, but one that wasn't profitable. ChrisJP.com - My personal splash page obviously isn't much of a problem, this, along with my web portfolio at chrisphillips.co.uk will be online as soon as I have a new server set up. unannounced, unrelated project - Nothing to do with games, but our most recent backup was 8 days ago. We've done shitloads of work in those 8 days though. So yeah, that's what's happened. Obviously I'm pretty pissed off at the moment for both the attack, and for myself not keeping up to date with off-site backups. Gonna be a very busy week for me trying to get all this shit sorted out now, just letting everyone know what happened to those sites in the network. To ImageLodge users: I mentioned ImageLodge because obviously I promoted it a fair bit here through it's very troubled beginnings (yes I'm aware of how shit it used to be), but because of this I know quite a few of you, including myself did actually make regular use of it. I realise it's very easy to simply switch to another image host, there's hundreds out there, but we did have some cool features, the .zip/.rar mass uploading of images was particularly popular. Would any of you users like IL to return with a relaunch? Or will you simply move on to another host? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike356 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Id like IL to relaunch since I used it a good amount and it was the easiest to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpilk901 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Sorry to hear about that Chris, hope you can get some of those sites sorted out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noru Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Damn, that really sucks, hope you can get things sorted out. Anyways, a relaunch of ImageLodge would be great, I was going to try it out soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I use ImageLodge all the time, rips the shit out of ImageShack! Bring it back pleasee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Crap. Now that I wanted to search and join these websites, also Matt it will be difficult to get them back up because if the SQL database fucks up, heavy modifications have to be done to the site's files. Just like you do with an IPBoard if you move hosts and it doesn't always work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate10 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Damn, that's crazy. But yeah, bring back IL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Too bad IL got mucked up and stuff, although I'll be happy if you relaunch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoLuTioN Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Oh Sorry about your sites Chris, must suck too loose so much data. IL was pretty cool, used it to upload high res images/Animated Gifs, Relaunching Alan Wake may get the community active again? Hope you cn sort everything out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvas. Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 (edited) Shit Chris. Very sorry to hear this if nothing then atleast bring imagelodge back. Almost all of my images were hosted there even my current sig. Edited June 10, 2009 by Eazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 Might be a chance to recover all the data. Server techie looked into and could see it was still all there. In the next 24 hours they can hopefully have a new server up for me with the data copied across. So, may not have lost everything! Really do hope that is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damjan Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 IL should be back, but with a new name, and design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvas. Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Hoping for it Chris ! A new name and design would be good but thats not really necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Steam, I don't think Chris would have the time to code another design. I think he likes the current one, tbh... So do I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 All sites should now be back online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoLuTioN Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Oh Awesome news, The server guys were able to recover all the data eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 Yeah they got a new server set up for me 2 days ago, and now finally this morning were able to get backups from the old server transferred to this new one, and they're all restored now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvas. Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Amazing news my sig is back news. Cheers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRX22B1998 Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Amazing news my sig is back news. Cheers... lol. its good to hear imagelodge is back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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