Administrators Nabeel Posted February 28, 2012 Administrators Report Posted February 28, 2012 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. 5 Quote
Moderators Kyle Posted February 28, 2012 Moderators Report Posted February 28, 2012 Good to be back Nabeel. Hope the rest will go okay! Quote
tutmeister Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 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. 4 Quote
Virtualei Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Glad you are fighting back Nabeel. Looking forward to normality again. Quote
CXA001 Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 There have been a few VAs hit also in the last week or so. Glad to see things are slowly coming back. Quote
tutmeister Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 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. Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted February 29, 2012 Author Administrators Report Posted February 29, 2012 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. 3 Quote
rpalmer800 Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Yeah, Sorry to hear about this....,and as CXA001 Mentioned there has been a few VA's Hit...., Glad to say everything is coming back though. Quote
Moderators Kyle Posted March 1, 2012 Moderators Report Posted March 1, 2012 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! 1 Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrators Report Posted March 4, 2012 78% on the restore, man it's taking sooo long haha 1 Quote
5SA CEO Posted March 5, 2012 Report Posted March 5, 2012 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. Quote
MBrown Posted March 8, 2012 Report Posted March 8, 2012 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 Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 9, 2012 Author Administrators Report Posted March 9, 2012 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 Quote
MBrown Posted March 9, 2012 Report Posted March 9, 2012 Oh right sure Nabeel no worries. Still getting used to this new forum Quote
MikeP Posted March 12, 2012 Report Posted March 12, 2012 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! Quote
Steve Bartlett Posted March 12, 2012 Report Posted March 12, 2012 Must be doing some work on it, my website is really slow today. Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 12, 2012 Author Administrators Report Posted March 12, 2012 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? Quote
Steve Bartlett Posted March 12, 2012 Report Posted March 12, 2012 yes. It started getting slow again today Quote
Vidofnir Posted March 12, 2012 Report Posted March 12, 2012 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. Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 13, 2012 Author Administrators Report Posted March 13, 2012 yes. It started getting slow again today I don't know what that means. If you followed the instructions on the homepage, then your slowness isn't from the phpVMS server. Anyway, the downloads site has been restored: http://downloads.phpvms.net/ Quote
twelka3 Posted March 13, 2012 Report Posted March 13, 2012 Nabeel still redirects you to phpvms is down Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 13, 2012 Author Administrators Report Posted March 13, 2012 Nabeel still redirects you to phpvms is down Huh? Quote
twelka3 Posted March 13, 2012 Report Posted March 13, 2012 When you go to downloads.phpvms.net it goes to the phpvms home page were it tells you the fix and the phpvms is down. Quote
mseiwald Posted March 13, 2012 Report Posted March 13, 2012 Hm here it goes to the Index with all the Files listed. Same on the computer. Don't know why you are directed to the phpVMS is down page. (null) Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 14, 2012 Author Administrators Report Posted March 14, 2012 Forum attachments seemed to have been restored now Quote
twelka3 Posted March 15, 2012 Report Posted March 15, 2012 Glad to here! Really happy to see it all come back Quote
MikeP Posted March 18, 2012 Report Posted March 18, 2012 Any idea when the website will be back online and doc's/API/vaCentral etc? I'm anxiously waiting on the docs and stuff so I can start skinning and working things out . Quote
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