# Recent Downtime **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [February 28, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296 "2012-02-28T17:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/nabeel/32/2971_2.png) [@nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/nabeel)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/1 "2012-02-28T17:31:19Z")
Hi all, As you’ve definately noticed, phpVMS and vaCentral have been down. While I’m still tracking down the cause, I believe it to be malicious in nature. As of now, avatars and forum attachments are unavailable, until the backup recovery completes. The documentation above is also unavailable until some certain pieces of data are recovered. I don’t have an ETA on the completion of recovery. But, over the next few weeks, I will be bringing back online vaCentral and the main phpVMS site - while I’m not sure of any data loss, I don’t believe there to be any. I will keep you all in the loop of far as the progress. Thanks all for your patience. ---
**Author:** ![Kyle](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/848f3c/32.png) [@Kyle](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/Kyle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/2 "2012-02-28T23:07:56Z")
Good to be back Nabeel. Hope the rest will go okay! ---
**Author:** ![tutmeister](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@tutmeister](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/tutmeister)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/3 "2012-02-29T02:22:58Z")
Sorry to hear that some @$$wipe decided to mess with a small hobby website, I truly hate things like that. You’ve never done anyone any harm and have provided, for free, one of the best addons to the VA “industry” ever made. So thank you so much for bringing it all back online, it would have been easy to just throw it away and not bother with it. ---
**Author:** ![bwilber](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bwilber](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/bwilber)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/4 "2012-02-29T02:34:14Z")
What he said! ^ ---
**Author:** ![vJet2](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/vjet2/32/137_2.png) [@vJet2](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/vJet2)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/5 "2012-02-29T10:42:38Z")
Glad you are fighting back Nabeel. Looking forward to normality again. ---
**Author:** ![CXA001](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CXA001](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/CXA001)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/6 "2012-02-29T19:06:45Z")
There have been a few VAs hit also in the last week or so. Glad to see things are slowly coming back. ---
**Author:** ![tutmeister](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@tutmeister](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/tutmeister)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/7 "2012-02-29T19:52:46Z")
I have to add, I’m digging the new forum look. I enjoy the same forum type over at AVSIM, REX, ORBX and other places, so this is a familiar place to be. ---
**Author:** ![nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/nabeel/32/2971_2.png) [@nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/nabeel)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/8 "2012-02-29T22:00:43Z")
I’m really digging it too, have to make a few adjustments, but there have been quite a few improvements, so I’m very happy with it overall. IPB has great support, too. The backup recovery is at about 50% - it’s an 80GB volume with an incremental backup - so rolling up all of the files with the incrementals is what is taking so long. After that point, recovering whatever data I can manually is the next step, hopefully that won’t take forever. I’m planning to first get the API server back up and running, and then vaCentral, and then the rest of phpVMS. ---
**Author:** ![Kyle](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/848f3c/32.png) [@Kyle](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/Kyle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/9 "2012-03-01T03:49:12Z")
> There have been a few VAs hit also in the last week or so. > > Glad to see things are slowly coming back. Wow, that doesn’t look good. I better start doing an full site inspection so mine won’t be hit. Just silly that those hackers/attackers are taking our hobbies away… > I’m really digging it too, have to make a few adjustments, but there have been quite a few improvements, so I’m very happy with it overall. IPB has great support, too. > > The backup recovery is at about 50% - it’s an 80GB volume with an incremental backup - so rolling up all of the files with the incrementals is what is taking so long. After that point, recovering whatever data I can manually is the next step, hopefully that won’t take forever. I’m planning to first get the API server back up and running, and then vaCentral, and then the rest of phpVMS. Take your time Nabeel, Your doing a good job for bringing everything back up! ---
**Author:** ![reed0427](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/reed0427/32/112_2.png) [@reed0427](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/reed0427)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/10 "2012-03-02T03:38:43Z")
Keep up the good work! ---
**Author:** ![nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/nabeel/32/2971_2.png) [@nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/nabeel)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/11 "2012-03-04T17:42:24Z")
78% on the restore, man it’s taking sooo long haha ---
**Author:** ![5SA\_CEO](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/5/ed655f/32.png) [@5SA\_CEO](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/5SA_CEO)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/12 "2012-03-05T18:24:55Z")
But at least you are getting it back and that is the main thing, be back up and stick it to the git who did this in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![MBrown](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/mbrown/32/146_2.png) [@MBrown](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/MBrown)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/13 "2012-03-08T17:51:55Z")
I’ve noticed a few minor things like I can’t add new airports on import of schedules. Nor Manually find them. So I take it some parts of php are still being fixed. Take your tim e though and I wish you all the best ---
**Author:** ![nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/nabeel/32/2971_2.png) [@nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/nabeel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/14 "2012-03-09T04:24:34Z")
If you search ‘geonames’ a thread just came up for that… I can’t look for it right now (I’m on my phone) but it will have that fix ---
**Author:** ![MBrown](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/mbrown/32/146_2.png) [@MBrown](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/MBrown)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/15 "2012-03-09T06:54:29Z")
Oh right sure Nabeel no worries. Still getting used to this new forum ---
**Author:** ![MikeP](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MikeP](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/MikeP)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/16 "2012-03-12T11:02:39Z")
Any updates on the restore? Your last status post was on the 4th, it’s now the 12th I know how you feel, having to restore a full server, it’s not a nice job! Keep up the good work! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Bartlett](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Steve\_Bartlett](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/Steve_Bartlett)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/17 "2012-03-12T17:57:59Z")
Must be doing some work on it, my website is really slow today. ---
**Author:** ![nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/user_avatar/forum.phpvms.net/nabeel/32/2971_2.png) [@nabeel](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/nabeel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/18 "2012-03-12T18:14:49Z")
> Any updates on the restore? Your last status post was on the 4th, it’s now the 12th > > I know how you feel, having to restore a full server, it’s not a nice job! > > Keep up the good work! Still working on it, trying to recover mysql from the box but am hitting some snags > Must be doing some work on it, my website is really slow today. On what? Did you disable the API as-per the instructions on [phpvms.net](http://phpvms.net)? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Bartlett](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Steve\_Bartlett](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/Steve_Bartlett)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/19 "2012-03-12T18:22:18Z")
yes. It started getting slow again today ---
**Author:** ![Vidofnir](https://forum.phpvms.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@Vidofnir](https://forum.phpvms.net/u/Vidofnir)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296/20 "2012-03-12T19:45:39Z")
Our files for some reason didn’t even _have_ VA Central reporting in it, so I made sure it was set to FALSE IAW the directive. Seems a bunch faster today. [Next page](https://forum.phpvms.net/t/recent-downtime/6296.md?page=2)