Atcbox.com : wel/niet online, etc.

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Zoals https://www.facebook.com/atcbox laat zien wordt er achter de schermen nog druk gewerkt! Maar het herstel is begonnen...

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Een "hoop herrie" op de video te http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4042969041581 .

Maar de vorderingen zijn nu "zichtbaar"

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Jawel, de website http://www.atcbox.com/ doet het weer !

Maar volgens http://www.facebook.com/atcbox zijn de forums nog steeds down.

En ik kan met voorstellen dat nu nog niet gelijk alles, zoals de diverse streams, weer naar behoren zal werken...

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Wat was er allemaal aan de hand?

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Wat was er allemaal aan de hand?

Die vraag mag je gaan stellen via
http://www.facebook.com/atcbox ,
en anders straks, als de forums het weer doen,
via http://www.atcbox.com/

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Voor de geinteresseerden: het forum van http://www.atcbox.com doet het ook weer.

Maar zoals
http://www.atcbox.com/modules.php?name= ... highlight=
vermeldt is een en ander helaas niet zonder gevolgen gebleven, er is helaas veel verloren gegaan...

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Volgens https://www.facebook.com/atcbox is de website eventjes off-line.

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Vandaag op http://www.atcbox.com

phpBB : Critical Error

Error doing DB query userdata row fetch : session_pagestar

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 145 Table '/forum/atcbox_main/nuke_bbsessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired

Op https://www.facebook.com/atcbox staat nog niets hierover. Crash per afgelopen nacht

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...en de storing is weer verholpen...

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https://www.facebook.com/atcbox

Dear all,

As you all should have noticed, Atcbox.com is extremely slow at the moment. Trust me when I say we're well aware of this problem, but unfortunately we cannot fix it directly.

To give you some background information: our website is flooded by botnets, trying to use this site for spamming activities. There are two ways of solving this:

1) block ip-blocks, meaning complete ranges of users cannot access the website anymore
2) Rate limiting, meaning the maximum number of connections to the website are lowered

The problem with 1) is, that we do not have a hardware firewall. This means the (virtual) server that runs Atcbox has to check every incoming connection and decide to allow it (or not).
This costs a LOT of resources that we do not have.
The second problem this gives, is that probably some of the real users will be blocked too, just because of being in the wrong ip-range.

So we chose 2). Unfortunately, this means the site is horribly slow. Yes, we are frustrated as well, but it's the only way we can keep the site up.

The problems we're facing are because of a bug in our forum software (phpbb). The logical question is, why we don't change the software then.

Well, we are working on it. It's not easy at all, lot of work and we'll manually have to transfer all users to the new software.
There is no software that will automatically do this for us.

So: at the moment this is the best we can do. We're working very very hard on the new site. However, this won't be fixed in a couple of days.

We really ask you for your understanding and would like to apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing.