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My apologies to all FreeWebspace.net visitors over the last 48 hours. When the site has been online it's been intermittent at best. If you saw our home page I'm sure you're now aware that we were hit with a large DDoS attack. At times the throughput coming in exceeded 400 mbit/sec. In...

Quick post test.

There will be 5 to 10 minutes of downtime as we install a new APC masterswitch that FWS will be plugged in to. The installation is scheduled for this afternoon, and I would appreciate your patience during this time. Thanks.

Just a quick note to say that we're working on a kernel upgrade, and the server will have to be rebooted in a few minutes. [Update: Within 30 minutes, not within a few.] If all goes well we should be back within a few minutes after that.

As you all have probably noticed we had a significant forum outage today. The vBulletin upgrade only partially completed before there was a problem with mySQL. The upgrade was in a half completed state, and we decided to restore the backup and run it again. With a forum this size restoring...

Please note that within the next 15 minutes there will be a period of one minute downtime. We're doing some re-cabling at the datacenter, and it shouldn't take more then a minute to do. We're eliminating some potential bottlenecks, and we're upgrading more of the network to gigabit ethernet...

Within the next two hours FreeWebspace.net will be completely offline for roughly 5 minutes. We're re-locating the server to a new rack location and hooking it up to a faster gigabit ethernet switch. Please be patient during this brief downtime and we'll have it back as soon as possible.

Dear Forum Readers: You may notice that the forum has been slow at times over the past week. Today it will be even more noticeable to most users as we're preparing to move all of the data to a new server. Please be patient with us as this process continues. We will have to bring the...

This is for everyone that has either purchased something with a credit card or processed a credit card: http://www.thescreamonline.com/cartoons/cartoons3-3/ :biggrin2: This guy is very creative. I know a number of times they don't bother to check the signature but I can imagine what...

Macromedia Flash has a security hole that allows remote exploitation. It seems like the potential for abuse is high so I thought I would post a notice on it. Advisory: http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021216.html You may upgrade Flash here...

Macromedia Flash has a security hole that allows remote exploitation. It seems like the potential for abuse is high so I thought I would post a notice on it. Advisory: http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021216.html You may upgrade Flash here...

CNN has a story on how police in Italy removed a sites content even though that server was located in the USA. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/22/borderless.internet.ap/index.html Question being, do you think they should have the authority to do such? Typically any legal issues...

NexDog brought up the issue of tape backups in the paid hosting section in this thread: http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=28015 It was about to turn in to a small conversation in that thread but that wasn't the proper place so I'm posting about it here. What are...

I've seen a few new smilies that I thought would be nice additions to the forum so I thought I would post to get your two cents. I'm not sure where to officially get them and if they are for public use but I've seen them on multiple boards so I would assume so...

Some members have recently been attacking new members and I want to make this very clear that this is NOT allowed. I've also noticed a large number of posts which aren't on topic and are meant only to increase that individuals post count. We've already warned a few users about these topics...

Kernel Upgraded We've upgraded the kernel to see if this resolved the stalling issues. Please post here to tell us if you have noticed any improvements or if you are still experiencing problems. I'm making this thread sticky for now. Thanks. One more thing, keep this thread on topic...

Lately there has been an increase in the number of people who are posting in the Free Web Space forum just for the sake of increasing their post counts. It was a bit out of hand because of most of the moderators taking time off over the Holiday season but that is hardly an excuse for...

There have been a few recent threads lately that have gotten completely off topic and they resulted in personal attacks. So far only one member has been banned but it won't be a permanent thing. If there are personal attacks going on in this forum we'll either remove the attack or simply...

The time on the server was indeed further then it should be. I didn't notice this once vBulletin was set up because I rarely look at the time because the posts go in chronological order. Thanks to Woofcat for catching this one early on. :) Anyway, it will still be rather confusing for the...

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