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Firewall outage....
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 08:36 AM UTC
All,
Nothing wrong with the server. This time (and I am partly guessing) there was a problem with the Firewall for the server. It had to be reset. We have had a lot of weird activity from China and the Netherlands lately for both email and login hacking attempts. It may be that the firewall automatically shut access off to prevent further attacks.

Hopefully this will not happen again any time soon.

Thanks for your patience.

Jim
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 08:38 AM UTC
I was lost, and now am found....

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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 08:41 AM UTC
I had nothing to do at work today... was looking forward to a full day on the big A.... LOL.... aarrgghh... computers, can't live with 'em, don't get paid without 'em... LOL :-)

Good to be back though... need my daily fix... :-)

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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 08:44 AM UTC
Site was on and off yesterday evening and finally went out this morning. What ever it was, was scary . Thought maybe it was the NASTY weather in the Atlanta area.
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 08:48 AM UTC

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glad things are back up but this site seems to go down alot more now, i think this is hte fourth time in as many months. Don't remember it being this bad in the past.


James,
Actually the site is far more stable and has far better uptime than in the first year and a half of operation. As for the past 4 months I only remember one other time the server was down for any extended time period.

However I am greatly disappointed in our hosting reseller in the UK. I submitted a ticket for a problem with the servers primary IP address (not Armorama's) and then the problem stopped. He reponded to the ticket and didn't even notice that the service had completely shut-down again. Not cool.

Thanks,
Jim
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 08:52 AM UTC
Stuff happens...... :-) :-) :-)
Hackers and scamers are the scum of the earth...... malicious malcontents that should be stepped on like cockroaches......

Well just my personal thoughts about them.......
Nice to have the site and email back...... :-) :-) :-)
Hope everyone who celibrates the 4th of July enjoys themselves, and stays safe. As usual, I'll be working overtime this week end. So check in's' will be short and inbetween shifts.
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 09:01 AM UTC
Whatever the reason for the downtime, I'm just darned glad to see it back! I've been trying on and off since 06:45 UK time!
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 09:13 AM UTC
I tried before I went to work, and again at lunch time when I finished for the day, every 15 minutes since. At least I got some painting time on my second 'Mini-Magic' entry!
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 09:15 AM UTC

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maybe you should switch to ProBoards mate i can put in a good word for you and get you a very good price my friend :-) :-) :-)

cheers,

James


I know you are joking but just for fun I looked up ProBoards' Alexa and hosting situation. We do WAY more bandwidth than them (since we have about the exact same Alexa rank and forums are typically low on bandwidth), and our server is equal to theirs. I am talking about their primary site of course. Not the myriad of other sites they host on other servers. I actually wonder if their "forum" servers are anywhere near as nice as ours. Probably wimpy single-processor 2.0 Celerons. :-)

ProBoards, Network54, DiscServer... I expect them to all be gone in a few years anyways. Poorly run for "professional" businesses.

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:03 AM UTC

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Stuff happens...... :-) :-) :-)
Hackers and scamers are the scum of the earth...... malicious malcontents that should be stepped on like cockroaches...... Well just my personal thoughts about them....... Nice to have the site and email back...... :-) :-) :-)


Geez Dave, don't hold anything back.. :-) :-) :-) :-)

Happy 4th

Steve
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:20 AM UTC

Hey Jim,
I blame it on James "squirlly-girlly's"-------put the mockers (eh-yes mockers) on it :-) :-) :-) ----yipee glad its back ---------got dragged into garden because it was down :-) :-) :-) ------even had TAROK----e-m me.........got the two of us worried--phew

aye
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:38 AM UTC

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Still it could be worse youcould be forced to watch Channel 4's big Brother show


no, No, NOOOOOOOO! James, don't your dare even threaten that. It’s too nasty!
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:58 AM UTC
Actually Big Brother 6? is starting here in the US. My wife and I generally watch as there is nothing much on in the summer anyways.

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:58 AM UTC

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Still it could be worse youcould be forced to watch Channel 4's big Brother show


LOL! Even with Armorama down (I actually missed the problem) - things can never be THAT bad! :-)

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 12:27 PM UTC
Fortunately the chat was working so I was in touch with Cuhail and DaveCox.
Seems no one had modeling problems at the time,but some kids had to go to bed... (++) (++)

Lets see if I "Trasport"...
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 12:40 PM UTC
So, seems I'm not the only one who finds "Trasport" a bit irritating?
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 02:03 PM UTC
Trasport?
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Posted: Friday, July 01, 2005 - 02:48 PM UTC

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Trasport?
Yes, "trasport" istead of "transport". Whe you post, the brief message that pops up says it will trasport you back. I remember metioig it log ago that it was missig the "n".
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Posted: Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 02:51 AM UTC
Glad to have the site back up.... to me it seems the site is very stable and when it does go down it is an item of note...

better than some sites where its an item of note if they stay up............ ( something that was more of a prob in the very early days of he WWW)

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