Server down

[misi]

http://forums.hostgator.com/network-outage-gator3268-p517937.html#post517937

Our server was down but now it's back to the top!

 

[foxidrive]

All good now.

 

[Guess]

Never noticed !

 

[foxidrive]

Never noticed !

It's been down here for a few hours too juts now.

 

[misi]

It's been down here for a few hours too juts now.

Seems it will be soon a daily event.

 

[foxidrive]

The previous messages seemed to say that it was a DDOS attack... is that right?

 

[misi]

The previous messages seemed to say that it was a DDOS attack... is that right?

That is the most common excuse when a server disfunctioning.
We are on a shared server.
#1 The server is oversold
#2 One user has a hacked account, start spamming.

 

[misi]

Found the reason:

http://forums.hostgator.com/network-outage-gator3268-p517937.html#post517937

Re: Network Outage : gator3268
Gators,

This has been complete and the offending user has been removed from our network.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Edit:
Hmmm... Only the time does not match...seems it happened again.

 

[TeeEm]

Hope they fed him to the Alligators.

 

[misi]

Mmmm...

 

[Guess]

The Dog Forum was also affected, though not as much as here. Same Hosting Company.

 

[misi]

Same Hosting Company.

Different server.
Seems it was a firmware worm.

Update: The cause of the outage that began yesterday afternoon was due to an undocumented bug in firmware utilized in our vendor’s hardware. At this time, we’re still diligently working to restore service all customers. While the majority of customers are back online, we still have a small subset of servers that we are individually rebooting. You may see intermittent service as we complete the reboot. We appreciate your patience as we continue working on this.

On which PHP version is the Dog Forum?

 

[aye-aye-Chris]

It's been down here for a few hours too juts now.

juts now = aanow?

 

[Guess]

Different server.
Seems it was a firmware worm.



On which PHP version is the Dog Forum?

 

[misi]

juts now = aanow?

 

[misi]

...

Unfortunately there is only the MySQL version.

 

[Guess]

Isn't 3.0.11 the phpBB version ?

 

[misi]

Isn't 3.0.11 the phpBB version ?

phpBB is the name of the script such as phpBB, vBulletin, XenForo, etc.

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

The default for our host is 5.2.x

Dear Valued Customer,

We're writing to inform you of an important change in your server's default configuration that may affect your websites. The default
version of PHP employed by our servers will be updated to PHP 5.4

 

[misi]

Our host is planning to change PHP 5.2.17 to PHP 5.4.x tonight.

 

[foxidrive]

It must have gone well!