Forum back up - Hooray!

[BabyG]

I don't post often but lurk fairly frequently so I have been absolutely lost without the forum! How else am I supposed to interpret what is going on in the world of F1 without the guidance of the people who post here?

Well done to the person/people who got the forum back up and running! You truly are heroes.

[Kuwashima]

BabyG has beaten me to it, but... yes, the forum is back up.

Apologies for the delay - we had a permissions issue with the server, and my emails were going unanswered. Turns out they weren't received and contacting the person who could help me directly addressed the issue.

Sorry again and feel free to get back into it with the season approaching.

We will be recording a podcast in the next two weeks, so look out for that also!

Cheers,
Jamie

[AndreaModa]

Jamie, is there any chance the filter on words starting with f and ending in ck, such as feed.back (full stop added to circumvent the filter) could be altered please? At the moment there's a whole load of perfectly acceptable words that are being censored which is often making some replies confusing.

[dinizintheoven]

So it really was gone for a week? I thought I was dreaming. That, and I'd given the cache a good scrub for the first time in aeons and that's when it all went bang and started giving me 500 errors.

[DanielPT]

The Forum is alive!

[dr-baker]

A return to procrastiposting!

[Jocke1]

[Kuwashima]

Jamie, is there any chance the filter on words starting with f and ending in ck, such as feed.back (full stop added to circumvent the filter) could be altered please? At the moment there's a whole load of perfectly acceptable words that are being censored which is often making some replies confusing.

Sorry - I thought we had fixed this a while back - should be working correctly now.

feedback. bathplug.

[Yannick]

Welcome back, board. It's good to find out the reason has not been a deliberate temporary shutdown to prevent an attack by those Force 1ndia fan hackers again who might not have liked the people's reactions on here to the recent signing of Adrian Sutil to the 2nd Force 1ndia seat. Even after the comeback of the board, I haven't found a trace of it being discussed, so people on here are clearly more bored by this than they would have been if Force 1ndia had signed Nick Heidfeld instead.

[Londoner]

Welcome back, board. It's good to find out the reason has not been a deliberate temporary shutdown to prevent an attack by those Force 1ndia fan hackers again who might not have liked the people's reactions on here to the recent signing of Adrian Sutil to the 2nd Force 1ndia seat. Even after the comeback of the board, I haven't found a trace of it being discussed, so people on here are clearly more bored by this than they would have been if Force 1ndia had signed Nick Heidfeld instead.

Sutil was signed during the forum's downtime. Even then, it caused barely a murmur.

[Jocke1]

Sutil was signed during the forum's downtime. Even then, it caused barely a murmur.

Was anyone signed this time?

[UncreativeUsername37]

Sutil was signed during the forum's downtime. Even then, it caused barely a murmur.

Was anyone signed this time?

I dunno, maybe Grosjean got dropped. Haven't checked Autosport in a few hours.

[Jocke1]

So, what just happened to f1rejects.com? Why was it down for 24h+ ?

[Salamander]

So, what just happened to f1rejects.com? Why was it down for 24h+ ?

Because Crosswinds (the web host F1R uses) suck noodles.

[FMecha]

Contary to someone's statement over the chat that Crosswinds did not tell anything about the downtime, they did. Pasted for reference:

June 3, 6:53 PM - CWPRO2 Critical Failure: Update 2
Posted by: tony
I apologize for the gap in updates.

I had to send a friend to personally pick up the motherboard and drive it to the datacenter. It took FAR longer than I ever hoped.

After that we had to swap the motherboard - that took a couple hours - configure the settings and get the RAID to cleanly import the data.

Finally, it is done and everything is up.

I am running a final data validation while the server is operational.

Again, I apologize for this issue. Murphy really ate our server today.

Tony

June 3, 1:07 PM - CWPRO2 Critical Failure: Update 1
Posted by: tony
We finally got the server up to identify the issue. We have a failure of a component on the motherboard - that's why it would immediately die and reboot. We identified this by swapping out everything except the motherboard.

However, this creates a problem. We talked to our vendor and they have to special order the motherboard. Due to the onboard RAID chipset (slightly older) we need THAT board. We cannot find an addin card that does the same thing (no longer produced).

The board has been ordered but will take a few hours to get here.

Right now your sites and data are safe, but not accessible until this is done.

Tony

June 3, 10:07 AM - CWPRO2 Critical Failure
Posted by: tony
Something has failed on cwpro2. It comes up and once completes it's boot up, reboots immediately with no warning/error.

It's hard enough to debug that when at the keyboard but I have to do this with remote hands. A very capable engineer is looking at it and we're both scrambling to get the system back up ASAP.

Will keep you all informed.

Tony

At least they did tell us.

[Jocke1]

So good old Tony is at it again:

http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopi ... 40#p195397

[AndreaModa]

Someone else had to drive to get the motherboard because clearly lil Tony isn't old enough for a driving licence yet!

[Nuppiz]

Contary to someone's statement over the chat that Crosswinds did not tell anything about the downtime, they did.

Oh, I see it now. So basically both Crosswinds' and Shoutwiki's servers decided to bite the dust almost simultaneously (although in the latter case it was because of a software update instead of a component failure). I must say though that it isn't easy to find the update news page - unless I'm mistaken, one has to go through the Crosswinds Cadre to find the link there.

[DemocalypseNow]

Is it just me or do Crosswinds suffer component failures worryingly often?

[Salamander]

Is it just me or do Crosswinds suffer component failures worryingly often?

They do.

[Jocke1]

Blame 'lil Tony.

[AndreaModa]

Blame 'lil Tony.

His pocket money from his mum only goes so far y'know!

[Aerospeed]

Never a good sign when it's called a "critical" failure.

Be thankful this isn't about the new McLaren.

[Jocke1]

Do we have 'lil Tony to thank for the site/forum being back up?

[watka]

Do we have 'lil Tony to thank for the site/forum being back up?

Someone must have paid for the extra webspace.

[AndreaModa]

Do we have 'lil Tony to thank for the site/forum being back up?

Someone must have paid for the extra webspace.

Moooooooooom! Can I borrow 10 bucks pleeeeaaaase?

[Kuwashima]

Do we have 'lil Tony to thank for the site/forum being back up?

Someone must have paid for the extra webspace.

Actually no, it was an error at their end.

[DemocalypseNow]

A mafioso name for a mafioso hosting company! Fat Tony's gone and channeled all the server maintenance budget into drug deals again...typical.

[dr-baker]

Guess this is the most appropriate thread for what I am about to post?

Both before and after yesterday's forum downtime, whenever I load a new page on these forums in my uni's library, I get an antivirus warning (Kaspersky) saying malware has been detected. The actual message is:

URL http://www.f1rejects.com/fso.swf containing malware detected

Anybody else getting this? What's going on?

[Nuppiz]

Guess this is the most appropriate thread for what I am about to post?

Both before and after yesterday's forum downtime, whenever I load a new page on these forums in my uni's library, I get an antivirus warning (Kaspersky) saying malware has been detected. The actual message is:

URL http://www.f1rejects.com/fso.swf containing malware detected

Anybody else getting this? What's going on?

It may be some hackers have injected malicious code into the website again. I don't see any reason why Jamie or Enoch would have uploaded an SWF file on the website in the first place, let alone the main folder.

[dr-baker]

Guess this is the most appropriate thread for what I am about to post?

Both before and after yesterday's forum downtime, whenever I load a new page on these forums in my uni's library, I get an antivirus warning (Kaspersky) saying malware has been detected. The actual message is:

URL http://www.f1rejects.com/fso.swf containing malware detected

Anybody else getting this? What's going on?

It may be some hackers have injected malicious code into the website again. I don't see any reason why Jamie or Enoch would have uploaded an SWF file on the website in the first place, let alone the main folder.

What is an SWF file?

[FullMetalJack]

What is an SWF file?

Let's see