IndorilTheGreat Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 How would they get in if the server is down? :P :whistling: Well, pings and tracers could get through, the website just wouldn't show up. The site has to be running SOMEWHERE. Even if the server is down, things can still slip in. Oh, and what was the :whistling: for? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Raven Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 You know, this may be part of what caused my account to get hacked on a different IF Board a little while back... Well, it's working now at least. :yes: gman021, I think Chris is right here. If your account got hacked, the servers and the boards would have had to have been operational. The pings and tracers, just check for blocks. All they can tell you is whether or not, there is an electronic blockage between you and the site. The fact that even though the pangs and tracers were going through the ISPs still couldn't load the pages is the relevant information here. Your account getting hacked, more likely a factor of less than optimal security on the InVision boards Storm Raven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris 07 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Yeah even if some things could technically go through, no one would really be able to "see" the site, therefore hacking it is nearly impossible unless the server itself is hacked, now who would go that far (in other words an illegal activity which could lead them to JAIL!!!) just to hack one account? btw the :whistling: thingy i was just fooling around forget it. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndorilTheGreat Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 You know, this may be part of what caused my account to get hacked on a different IF Board a little while back... Well, it's working now at least. :yes: gman021, I think Chris is right here. If your account got hacked, the servers and the boards would have had to have been operational. *Sigh* Fine. I'll give in. I never do win arguments anyways... :dry: Although, shortly after my account was hacked, this happened. Does anyone else see a possible connection, or is it just a coincidence? Or perhaps I'm just being paranoid. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWarrior45 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Chris's and My board, which is hosted on s1 of the invision network, went down early last night. After some digging around, I found this: This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost. We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department. This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock. We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well. There is no impact in any of our other five data centers. I am sorry that this accident has occurred and I apologize for the impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris 07 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 It appears that the situation is back under control, the forums are up. :thumbsup: :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddycashmercury Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Not for everyone, Chris. I still can't get in to Saint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 It appears that the situation is back under control, the forums are up. :thumbsup: :biggrin:Some boards are up, but unreliable at best. On my own I need to refresh a few times to get a page to load. I made the mistake of trying to make a fairly large post when the server decided to eat it. It's probably best to waiti till it's sorted out, or write your posts in a .txt incase it happens to fail when trying to accept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris 07 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 2 strange things...@freddy: thats strange it appears to be working 100% for me right now...im having no issues whatsoever. :unsure: @Vagrant: Thats strange i was on your site this morning and it was working.... :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septim741 Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 I'm not having any problems so far today. Freddy, what's your internet connection speed. It may be that only some of hte faster connections can get on now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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