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    Well, that sucked

    Well, as you can see, the pavilion ran into a wee bit of trouble. we lost a lot. we lost the entire pavilion. it was completely erased and I was locked out from logging in via FTP or the server's Control Panel for several hours. The most recent full-site backup that was available was from July 9th, so thats what we're running off.

    I have no idea what caused the problems, but I'm going to find out. If people can tell me exactly what happened the last time they saw the pavilion, I'd appreciate it. something big happened, and I don't want it happening again.

    If you submitted a game between July 9th and now, re-submit it. If you registered after July 9th, I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to re-register. everything from after july 9th is gone, including the extensive work I did on the site's actual scripting.

    I dont know if it was a hacking attempt, or if the server had one massive hiccup.

    This is going to take a lot of time to fix. all forum data from the past month is gone, and I doubt it can be restored.

    Re-submit any games or demos that were lost ASAP. I want to fix everything I can as fast as I can. RPG Maker 3 is going to be out september 20th and we CANNOT afford any more delays like this.

    If a person was responsible for this, we'll get them. doesnt matter that all the last month's data was lost, there are other things tracking access to the server other than just this server itself.




    #2
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    That's really messed up, Valk. I'll try to help if I can.

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      #3
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      I was up until about 4:30am(pacific time) and the Pavilion was running just fine.

      Yeah, this does suck.

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        #4
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        I wondered why I was getting that strange message whenever I tryed to go to the Pavilion. At least you had a backup to go to; unlike Ezboards, which still hasn't recovered any of the lost data.

        It looks like my new Crown of Order demo is still here, so I must have summited that more then a month ago.

        I hope you find out what happened, so that this doesn't happen again. I also hope this wasn't a visious attack. I hate to think people have nothing better to do then crash other people's web sites.




        The Crown of Order demo is here.

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          #5
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          Aiigh, this blows, man! My post count!

          Ah, well. We've merely lost a month's worth of good crap. Might as well hit the ground running!

          On the bright side, I haven't gotten that negative admin rep for saying shaddap, yet, so yay.

          ~Updates weekly on Sundays~

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            #6
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            Man, it would almost be worth someone doing this just to get back at them.
            sig removed due to banned words being in playlist.

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              #7
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              Man, that sucks. Why the **** would someone do this?

              I'm betting it's one of those asshole PC RPGMers. They're so immature, they never learn and they just keep doing **** like this all the time. Jesus, grow up.

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                #8
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                As I said in the Site Info topic, everything was working perfect around 8:30 AM Central this morning, and then it suddenly stopped. I got my post in the Guitar II topic, hit New Posts, and the error message showed up. The bad part is that it was pointless to have posted that page-long thing about my guitar playing. The good thing is that a certain topic is gone, and I can still move forward with a plan I had a long long time ago.

                It still sucks that this happened, but how often does a person get to have a 1,000th post more than once?
                "Mindless killing doesn't do a lot for me anymore." - Sampson

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                  #9
                  Re: Well, that sucked

                  It's significantly worse since we lost cash, too. I'll help remedy that problem.

                  ~Updates weekly on Sundays~

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                    #10
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                    we didnt lose cash, its just that there's a lot of actual, physical damage on the server that is going to cost money to repair. its not looking like it was an attack, now that I've looked at everything, it seems like some of the hardware got fried. its functioning okay, despite the damage (we have less ram now) so it's okay if we take a while to fix things.



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                      #11
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                      That's sort of what I meant. I'll still contribute.

                      ~Updates weekly on Sundays~

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                        #12
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                        How did the people who maintain the server let that happen? I thought that a bunch of companies had safeguards against these kind of things.

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                          #13
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                          yeah, they do. but the problem is that I own the actual server, and any costs for it's maintenance or repairs fall on me. the only thing I pay the monitoring company for is the connection, and housing for it. I also pay them to install new hardware from time to time.



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                            #14
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                            I read that you guys had trouble at the mag. Sorry to hear about your misfortunes. Hope eveything runs smoothly for you guys again. Well, bye.

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                              #15
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                              Sorry about the troubles Valk. if anyone did this i hope they get a really big pain in the A**. you know like having a family memeber like Nash.
                              keep your friends close..
                              and your enemies even closer.

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