Topic: aelthric site is back

[bubu]

After few days of black out he could restore the site, it is still unstable but working 

[6pairsofshoes]

From here we only get the blue page with the announcement that he'd been hacked and took the site down -- nothing has changed.

[8ullfrog]

I can never remember how to spell his site. Funny enough, he's got an account on a gimp forum. hahah.

[smokester]

I can never remember how to spell his site.

That's exactly what I was trying to do for half an hour after reading this thread.

I failed.

[xtopave]

I get the blue page too.

[smokester]

I can host his site no probs. I offered that to him a while back as he was so generous in offering me a bottle of his special brew. 

I'll mail him and if he still wants the site up, I'll copy it over and host it myself. 

Let's hope he has a database backup...

[6pairsofshoes]

That would be great.  Several of us have e-mailed him with no response, so I suspect he's having computer connection problems as well as this recent hack.  When it rains it pours, I guess.  Sure hope he'll pop in here when he can.

[bubu]

Till yesterday the site worked at least for me and christ, I wrote there you could not see the site, today an smf site pop up instead, may be he is working on it ?

[dweez]

I get the blue page too.

If the above link is aelthric's site, I am able to get to it and actually register an account.

Ah, reading the Announcements thread, it seems this is newly installed fora.  Seems the attack was very malicious in nature so no data was able to be saved.  But he is back up.

[bubu]

Are you sure is his site? It has no names only yours now, and an administrator

[6pairsofshoes]

I was able to re register.  It's his site, he's made announcement signed with his name.  The board is bare, though, so we'll have to reconstruct the original threads, if we can remember them.

[smokester]

I registered there and it seems to be working fine. I wonder though what version he was using before that attack?  I have a feeling it was the "1*" series which would make converting the database tricky, and is possibly why he's started afresh (this version does have improved security, supposedly).

[8ullfrog]

yeah, he said about that on that other site smokester

[smokester]

yeah, he said about that on that other site smokester

It is possible to convert from the 1* series to the 2* versions, but takes a few steps and a bit of hand editing. I don't know how many threads/posts he had but it may be worth setting up a subdomain to get the original database working.  If it ended up too buggy then he could just abandon it.

[tarascon]

After few days of black out he could restore the site, it is still unstable but working 

Sounds like the story of my life.