The recent down-time was not in any way the fault of the machines that host Shifti or the operator of those machines. See... My ISP leases the lines they use for DSL service from Verizon and I seem to have run into a "Line Fault" somewhere between my house and the ISP. When Verizon got around to actually bothering to fix things the service started to return, but it took another reboot of the router to make everything work again. So, I guess, rejoice, Shifti is back again.
In other news... Ye Olde Internet Bill has showed up again. So visit the [[Shifti:Site Support|Donations]] page and help support the site by helping to pay for its internet connection.
:--[[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 22:38, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
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Alright peoples, there - I've managed to get the <RandomPages> tag functional. Turned out to be a massive error in the code thanks to the way things had changed in the calling parameters. So we've got the random pages showing up on the front page again, though there are some limits in the tag right now. It could be easily solved and made more robust, but there is no chance I'm going to risk screwing up the tag again right after I've gotten it working properly. Anyway... There are now the "Five Random Stories" on the front page again - Enjoy!
Alright peoples, there - I've managed to get the <RandomPages> tag functional. Turned out to be a massive error in the code thanks to the way things had changed in the calling parameters. So we've got the random pages showing up on the front page again, though there are some limits in the tag right now. It could be easily solved and made more robust, but there is no chance I'm going to risk screwing up the tag again right after I've gotten it working properly. Anyway... There are now the "Five Random Stories" on the front page again - Enjoy!
:--[[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 00:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
:--[[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 00:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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Some enterprising idiot in California (Santa Clara/SF Bay Area) has taken it upon themselves to mirror the entirety of Shifti using a really crappy piece of MacOS software named "SiteSucker". If that person happens to be reading this, then please - F*CK OFF! If you were to actually '''''ASK''''' any admin, we'd be more than happy to point you at backups of the database that we have available. Oh, and F*CK YOU VERY MUCH for being such a douche that you flipped the "ignore robots.txt" switch and also turned the settings so high that you've managed to [[wikipedia:DoS|DoS]] the site repeatedly.
Some enterprising idiot in California (Santa Clara/SF Bay Area) has taken it upon themselves to mirror the entirety of Shifti using a really crappy piece of MacOS software named "SiteSucker". If that person happens to be reading this, then please - F*CK OFF! If you were to actually '''''ASK''''' any admin, we'd be more than happy to point you at backups of the database that we have available. Oh, and F*CK YOU VERY MUCH for being such a douche that you flipped the "ignore robots.txt" switch and also turned the settings so high that you've managed to [[wikipedia:DoS|DoS]] the site repeatedly.
Revision as of 17:38, 27 May 2011
The recent down-time was not in any way the fault of the machines that host Shifti or the operator of those machines. See... My ISP leases the lines they use for DSL service from Verizon and I seem to have run into a "Line Fault" somewhere between my house and the ISP. When Verizon got around to actually bothering to fix things the service started to return, but it took another reboot of the router to make everything work again. So, I guess, rejoice, Shifti is back again.
In other news... Ye Olde Internet Bill has showed up again. So visit the Donations page and help support the site by helping to pay for its internet connection.
Alright peoples, there - I've managed to get the <RandomPages> tag functional. Turned out to be a massive error in the code thanks to the way things had changed in the calling parameters. So we've got the random pages showing up on the front page again, though there are some limits in the tag right now. It could be easily solved and made more robust, but there is no chance I'm going to risk screwing up the tag again right after I've gotten it working properly. Anyway... There are now the "Five Random Stories" on the front page again - Enjoy!
Some enterprising idiot in California (Santa Clara/SF Bay Area) has taken it upon themselves to mirror the entirety of Shifti using a really crappy piece of MacOS software named "SiteSucker". If that person happens to be reading this, then please - F*CK OFF! If you were to actually ASK any admin, we'd be more than happy to point you at backups of the database that we have available. Oh, and F*CK YOU VERY MUCH for being such a douche that you flipped the "ignore robots.txt" switch and also turned the settings so high that you've managed to DoS the site repeatedly.
In similar news, Comcast has been contacted over this matter in an attempt to resolve this without having to involve lawyers. DoS and DDoS attacks are illegal in the US - and since this person is clearly a US Citizen, I can easily file a lawsuit. However... I am loathe to do such, because I would get nothing out of it except for a lawyers bill.
And yes, I am very irritated. There is no reason for me to have to forcibly restart Apache multiple times in one day. Please, forgive the language, but I learned a long time ago that some idiots only respond to strong language.
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