Site Downage

[James0x57]

The gateway server caught on fire. The damage has been repaired.
Commence to posting.

I will commence to fixing that GeckoCodes login problem.


And for future down time or random happenings, follow GeckoCodes:
http://twitter.com/GeckoCodes

[dcx2]

I'm waiting for folks to come out with the conspiracy theories that Nintendo attacked our new server...

[James0x57]

The host was awarded with 100% uptime. We switch on sat and their gateway server catches on fire early the next day.

*fud++;*

[Link]

I also love my "luck"  - as James wrote, yes, the new provider won awards for its perfect up-time. And just that I move the page on it... major down time. Admittedly, I have been setting up the server since end of July - it never had downtimes. For Nintendo: I doubt anything happened from their side *lol*.

[Deathwolf]

wth again down.

[hetoan2]

If you want uptime so badly Deathwolf why don't you pay towards the site?

[IRS]

*turns forums on* SNAP they caught fire again :\ well.. guys it looks like we are taking a break.. again.. *all the users WTF JUST HAPPENED*

[James0x57]

Currently Link pays for the hosting of GeckoCodes and WiiRD Forums. His PayPal info is on his profile (log in to pay pal before clicking the link on his profile).

Though I haven't contributed financially YET, I do have a pay pal transfer pending for 100usd for almost a week now (it's so slow!). He's been hosting my baby for around 2 years and never asked me for a dime. Even if I tried to bring it up, he never held a conversation about it for more than 60 seconds. So this is almost nothing considering how much I appreciate it.

As an okay excuse for why I never helped pay before: I was a full time college student making about $30 a month. lol

[Link]

Last night it was not really down.. that was ENTIRELY my faul.. I needed to set up another server core part however well - that was setting up a new mail domain - problem was: the domain was freshly registered and bots automatically try to use it to send mails to or send mails via it - fortunately the mail server has authorization so no relaying of mails was possible.. due to several bots (they often do that if a domain gets freshly registered) attacking it the server performance went down to nothing.. if you waited yesterday.. like sit back and relax and wait, the site would have built up.. when I noticed, I was hardly able to log into the server. By now: currently access to port 25 (SMTP) on that domain is blockeded, e-mails to malformed addresses won't get logged but dropped immediately to save server load.

But sorry, that was my fault, I should have known about "domain watcher" bots!

[Deathwolf]

If you want uptime so badly Deathwolf why don't you pay towards the site?

wtf are you mad? o,o
you are selling codes, dude that's crazy.
pay XX$ for online rapid fire wtf....

[Link]

Well,  someone has to pay the site in the end.

Currently I do and I am very happy James0x57 supports it. Or would you rather have the site on a free webspace server with tons of ads, traffic limitations and miserable back-ups meaning a failure on my side causes a complete loss of everything?

I am paying to get: backups, very high traffic allowance and ad-freeness. The reliability might be of an issue for my provider right now (after all this site is hosted in a server centre they just opened 2 months ago but if they work out those issues I'd prefer having this or that down time rather than unreliable backups!)

[James0x57]

Mathew_Wi:
Yeah I know there's a small issue with the pay pal links (you have to be logged in to paypal BEFORE clicking it). If I were to do it correctly, the hackers would need to supply their paypal "donate" code that paypal can generate.

But for now, you can copy the link on his profile-- his paypal email is visible on the end of the link.

[hetoan2]

If you want uptime so badly Deathwolf why don't you pay towards the site?

wtf are you mad? o,o
you are selling codes, dude that's crazy.
pay XX$ for online rapid fire wtf....

Thats an exaggeration. I give VIP access to donators and in return they get special codes.
That in no way influences my policies on here. I need to do something to pay for the site, because I unlike Link am not generous enough to host for free. It SHOULD be the community's responsibility to help with the site's server costs.

And If you aren't willing to help pay then to be quite honest you should not be bitching about the slight amount of downtime we've had because when people flame they don't help the situation.

[James0x57]

I applaud your entrepreneurism. =P
But let us all keep the bickering/instigating to a minimum.

The 100usd paypal transaction has been completed btw! Feels good to finally pay "child support" on my baby. lmao