that was a long day!!!

[boxerdogboxerdog is verified member.]

nice to be back

 

[SkinnerSkinner is verified member.]

So acorn was down ?

My DNS has been all over the show this last week, so acorn has resolved a dozen times, and some sites only half load.

I've just moved to opendns because my paid for dns sucked

 

[retired_member12]

nice to be back

Again! Not a criticism, just an observation!

 

[doodlebug]

That's nice to know, I've been out all day with my 5 year old for her birthday and was thinking, can't wait to get home on tinternet, 1st thing I'll check Acorn.

I couldn't have gone on today anyway

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

I complained to the hosting co last week, they said they'd keep an eye on it, guess that doesn't include weekends.

Grrrrrrrrr

 

[doodlebug]

I complained to the hosting co last week, they said they'd keep an eye on it, guess that doesn't include weekends.

Grrrrrrrrr

Your hosting company give you quite a bit too much downtime

 

[retired_member12]

I complained to the hosting co last week, they said they'd keep an eye on it, guess that doesn't include weekends.

Grrrrrrrrr

There seems to be a lot of internet based companies who dont work weekends!

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Your hosting company give you quite a bit too much downtime

Well it was fine before the virus I had. I paid them to remove it so do expect that it should work as before, but it doesn't.

I have escalated it to their Director.

 

[PredPred is verified member.]

thought you'd lost her!
glad you got sorted
sack your hosting co. it will happen again. fact
get a new company

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

I'm thinking to try upgrading VB to a more recent version before I do that.

 

[jimm]

Im still happy to take a look

But please think carefully about 'upgrading' unless you mean to 3.8.5. V4 is a big step.

Edit, if its just Apache dieing how does a script to restart it sound?

Something like:

#!/bin/bash
if [ `pgrep apache2 -c` -le "0" ]; then
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
pkill -u apache #or what ever your apache user is
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
fi

run every few minutes should do the trick (may need a couple of tweaks to your environment).

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Script sounds cool but I have no idea with Apache. What would you need to have a look at?

 

[jimm]

Ill send you a PM

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

I have great mods who text me (thanks Paul) and a web-based status checker that sends me emails, but I can't always get access to the Server to restart the services depending upon where I am and what I am carrying with me.

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

OK thanks will take a look

 

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

I'm thinking to try upgrading VB to a more recent version before I do that.

You should, at the very least to 3.7.7 which is the latest version of the particular "branch" of VB that this forum is running. Anything less leaves known security holes, since they're public knowledge (all the hackers need to do - if they don't know already - is look at the Release Notes for VB updates)

You might also want to pay the one-time fee to get the "remove VB branding" option, which will strip references to VB out of the code that generates the threads. After that, you're free to edit the templates to remove references to the software/version number. It doesn't provide a LOT of protection, but it means that at the very least your forum won't be findable in the search engines if hackers are casting around for "insecure" forums to go after.

 

[jimm]

You can remove the version number without the branding free version but as you say security through obscurity isnt really security.
Though security isnt now causing this issue.