Popular Post RobotMonkeyHead Posted November 5, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2016 Well, this has been fun. First off I'd like to apologize to everyone for the down time. And for the 2 weeks of forum content we've lost. Gui and Waefu, I'm sorry about bambi's mother. Both of them. 2 fawns down 2 standing. Gear up for some payback fellas, fawns don't go out like no bitch! To everyone else who's last 2 weeks of discussion and hard work got thwomped by this damned spam bot, I'm sorry. We tried everything we possibly could. So many tutorials I could code our database from scratch, and tech support probably recognizes my number on their caller id at this point, if I'm not in their contacts already. We got hit with a spam bot that inflated one of our old databases up to an enormous 12m and despite all the best efforts of Alexei, Ryon and myself we were unable to salvage anything after October 4th. It was no one's fault, ultimately (other than the source of that bot's) it's just been staff attempting damage control, trying to save those 2 weeks worth of posts / content. Unfortunately it didn't work in the end. Going forward from here, theoretically this should be the last time anything like this happens. I'm currently working on automating regular backups of the entire forum. Nightly backups for up to a week, weekly backups for up to a month, and monthly backups for up to a year. Rather than relying on our hosting services back up and restore capabilities. We'll also have about 4 anti-spam plugins running from here on out. Thank you, to all of you for sticking around and coming back after all this. Again I'm so sorry for everything lost. It was a pretty hard hit, But we're back up and running and we will recover and rebuild! IDGCaptainRussia, Riku Minato, White Ranger and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Ranger Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 @RobotMonkeyHæd How did this site get a spam bot? Other then that, excellent job guys :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMonkeyHead Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 It actually got into an old obsolete database, which wound up causing the site to shut down from sheer size. That database was one staff used to use years ago to host images for our collections via a gallery feature. At the time, bots began accessing the gallery somehow, so the feature was removed for security. However one of the bots may have continued doing it's thing that entire time, or recently reactivated somehow, we don't know specifically. And thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Ranger Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 @RobotMonkeyHæd Glad it didn't do anything too severe, although I would like to point out that, we're missing the spoiler button :p No need to rush, as obviously the site just got back, so please by all means please take your time. 2016 has definitely been a rough year for MFFA, but I'm sure it will only get better from this point on. Anastasia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicePigeon Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 And I was just about to ask Alexei if it was okay to make these details about the databases available to the public, but it seems RMH was already way ahead of me lol. From what he told me though, it sounded like the database that was affected was one from MFFA's old web host from 3 years ago, which Ryon apparently forgot about after the site's hosting changed around that time? Galvatron and RobotMonkeyHead 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laharl Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 a bot got in somewhere thats for sure. It sucks we lost 2 weeks of content the main thing that really hurts us here is the news. we lost a good deal of news cause of this. Hopefully someone can repost all of that... Galvatron and RobotMonkeyHead 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLF Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Ive lost some of my content after that. But its OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jirobou Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 First time I hear about a spam bot that can take down a website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jirobou Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 ugh! sorry but I just posted once the site is still bugged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Ranger Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Strange, I can't view my or anyone profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS12 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 My profile used to have 9 coummunity reputations now it went down to 3. What's going on? The content I posted was lost as well.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS12 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 I can't view my profile for some reason...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMonkeyHead Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 Apparently we aren't out of hot water yet. Trying to fix this right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryon Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 just upgrade the forum. at this point, its probably old and current plug in's fighting each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 i thought hte forum got upgraded last time? yeah just be safe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noside Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 For some strange reason, my thread in Mugen Help was deleted... ugghh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedBeast Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 bot attack huh?...thats suspices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMonkeyHead Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 3 hours ago, Ryon said: just upgrade the forum. at this point, its probably old and current plug in's fighting each other. Upgraded, database repaired and optimized. I think the recent errors are a combination of what you're describing and that IPS upgrade kicking over. @Noside sorry man, that sucks. Just to expand on the bot issue a little bit, it did so by effecting one of our older out of use databases, which had had bot problems in the past. We think one of them has either been going this whole time, or was reactivated somehow, so recently that database started getting bigger and bigger in the background. Bigger than anything the tech support guy had ever seen in his life. Me and him had a good laugh about just how enormous it had gotten. Something like 6 times our allowed hosting space I think? No one noticed it quickly because we don't use that database anymore. We just kept it for the images in it. I hope this clears up the bot issue a little more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galvatron Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Woah! i that messed up, :-( but as you said RMH we can rebuild from what we lost. As long we have a strong community we can regain looking forward. :-) RobotMonkeyHead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryon Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 So it seems were all good for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotMonkeyHead Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 Most of the glitches seem to be working themselves out. Some of the images in the collections that were hosted on photobucket aren't showing up still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryon Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 those could have been from the PIWIGO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galvatron Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 59 minutes ago, RobotMonkeyHæd said: Most of the glitches seem to be working themselves out. Cool! like the forum has a mind of its own........ then again..... 1 hour ago, RobotMonkeyHæd said: Some of the images in the collections that were hosted on photobucket aren't showing up still. Hmm.. that strange the collections i made don't have that problem.... :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Fael Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 3 hours ago, RobotMonkeyHæd said: Some of the images in the collections that were hosted on photobucket aren't showing up still. It's a problem within photobucket itself, sometimes, the images becomes unavaliable for no reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-Skorp-I Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 Just glad to see that everything is ok again. I kinda missed you guys here in MFFA! Haha Galvatron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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