Administrators Nabeel Posted February 28, 2012 Administrators Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 28, 2012 Moderators Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Good to be back Nabeel. Hope the rest will go okay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutmeister Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwilber Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 What he said! ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtualei Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Glad you are fighting back Nabeel. Looking forward to normality again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CXA001 Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutmeister Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted February 29, 2012 Author Administrators Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpalmer800 Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted March 1, 2012 Moderators Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reed0427 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrators Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 78% on the restore, man it's taking sooo long haha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5SA CEO Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrown Posted March 8, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 9, 2012 Author Administrators Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrown Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Oh right sure Nabeel no worries. Still getting used to this new forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeP Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bartlett Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 Must be doing some work on it, my website is really slow today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 12, 2012 Author Administrators Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bartlett Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 yes. It started getting slow again today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidofnir Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 13, 2012 Author Administrators Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelka3 Posted March 13, 2012 Report Share Posted March 13, 2012 Nabeel still redirects you to phpvms is down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 13, 2012 Author Administrators Report Share Posted March 13, 2012 Nabeel still redirects you to phpvms is down Huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelka3 Posted March 13, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mseiwald Posted March 13, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelka3 Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Works now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted March 14, 2012 Author Administrators Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Forum attachments seemed to have been restored now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelka3 Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 Glad to here! Really happy to see it all come back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeP Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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