[OT] CCC vanished?

[Guenther Simon]

No php error but a much worse 'not found' message?
Does anyone know more, did they decide to stop the
forum at all?

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We're sorry...

The file you requested was not found on this Web site.

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Error Code: 404

Guenther

[bob]

No php error but a much worse 'not found' message?
Does anyone know more, did they decide to stop the
forum at all?

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Guenther

It was up yesterday. I suspect it has been hacked again...

[mike schoonover]

hi guenther
i noticed this morng the same thing.
dont have a clue regards
mike

[Tony Thomas]

No php error but a much worse 'not found' message?
Does anyone know more, did they decide to stop the
forum at all?

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Guenther

It was up yesterday. I suspect it has been hacked again...

What a waste of resources. They need to rather go learn how to weave baskets. I was online around the time CCC went offline. I replied to a post by Uri and got off for few minutes to grab something to eat, next thing I know is that I am getting the error message.

[Guenther Simon]

Uhh, it's gettin' worse, now if I give the main sites address
I can access the directory listing(which should be disabled
normally) and it shows _zero_ files anymore.

http://216.25.93.108/

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Icon  Name                    Last modified      Size  Description

Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_ssl/2.0.46 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Server at www.talkchess.com Port 80

Guenther

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hi Guenther,

i would say let's wait
We can't change anything and we're all see the same. No need to post webserver stuff anyway.

Best,
Daniel

[Graham Banks]

No php error but a much worse 'not found' message?
Does anyone know more, did they decide to stop the
forum at all?
Guenther

Message from the CCC owner:

I called the ISP, and they said they were experiencing problems on that server. Hopefully, it will be back up soon. We may have to take the site elsewhere to have some more reliability. The last few weeks have been disappointing.

[Volker Pittlik]

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Message from the CCC owner:

I called the ISP, and they said they were experiencing problems on that server. Hopefully, it will be back up soon. We may have to take the site elsewhere to have some more reliability. The last few weeks have been disappointing.

Based on my experience I can only suggest to change the ISP. PhpBB has an internal backup function (which does not work if the database exceeds a certain size). There are several tools to do a backup. Some ISPs offer the opportunity to download an SQL backup of the database (and even make a daily backup themselve).

I download the SQL backup of this forum daily to my local computer. It needs only a few minutes. CCC has more messages and more members so it will take a bit longer, but that is not a principal problem.

To restore the database should take longer (a few hours when moving the forum from the old ISP to this one), but when the forum is down for longer it is not a problem of backup/restore (if you have a backup at all).

Volker