DDoS attack, pictures ,down time etc.

sunni

sunni

Administrator
Staff member
I finally have a moment from this crazy hectic show down to let you all know finally what has happened, happening etc
due to my personal life and downtime times it was harder than expected to get word out

Our network received a DDos attack, which you are all aware of
we were not the subject of the attack as several other places are on this network.

during this attack we had a hardware failure/ malfunction because of this pictures broke, and currently are unable for uploading

while trying to fix said photos we took the website offline, which resulted in the secondary downtime, if you were a "lucky one" we were up for about an hour or so on on Tuesday
during which the forum was reset to feb 2016 , so we had to pull the website down again

Than our owner had a personal business matter outside of rollitup which cased him to have to do other work not in the same location as our rollitup area

in addition to that the reason this took so long is because from the get go of the ddos attack our website manager who fixes our website has been in critical condition in the hospital due to an illness.

Hes the only person who fixes our website, trying to find someone else to handle Rollitup is hard due to the nature of our website, our website guy is a trusted source and friend

Please give him your well wishes.

I do not have an eta on photo fixing at this time.
Thanks all the best
 
zoic

zoic

Well-Known Member
I fix computers. I know those jobs that start out simple and suddenly cascade into a full blown nightmare. A string of you need to do this before you do that (<== not string theory). I hope your tech makes a full recovery, it sucks when illness holds you down.

P.S. Thanks for the candid report of the whole sorted affair.
 
W

Wicked0ne

Active Member
I'm so glad you guys are back! I'm new to growing and almost every issue I ran into had been discussed on RIU. Thankfully I was able to pull some of that data from archived snapshots!

I hope the web admin gets better!
 
algebraist

algebraist

Well-Known Member
Well, I've been waiting for someone else to say it, and it seems nobody will, so I guess it's me.

Before I do, I'll say it again -- I love this site. It's far and away the best of its kind, and what I say here is motivated only by wanting to see it keep on keeping on... And @sunni, please don't take this as a criticism -- I get it, you're just the messenger. Thanks for what you're doing.

It all comes down to two guys? That's insane. (There, I said it.) Look, I wish them both the best, but let's face it, like it or not none of us is going to be here indefinitely. When something happens to one or both of these two guys, what happens to the site? My guess is that we've been getting a preview of the answer: It's done.

Which is a real tragedy. There's more than a decade of great information on this site. The members will eventually all relocate elsewhere, but that information will all be gone.

Also: While marijuana might still be illegal most places, talking about it isn't. At least not yet, in the US. This is a completely legitimate website. It should be hosted by a professional web hosting service, run by a company, where if someone is sick, someone else does the job.

Finally, clearly the owner doesn't see it that way. Which I think bodes ill for those of us who love the site. Probably it won't amount to anything, but in case it might I'll propose this idea, which I hope will be passed on to the owner: Why not sell? Successful websites are worth money, and there are people who would be happy to buy the site and run it professionally.

Thanks for listening.
 
sunni

sunni

Administrator
Staff member
algebraist said:
Well, I've been waiting for someone else to say it, and it seems nobody will, so I guess it's me.

Before I do, I'll say it again -- I love this site. It's far and away the best of its kind, and what I say here is motivated only by wanting to see it keep on keeping on... And @sunni, please don't take this as a criticism -- I get it, you're just the messenger. Thanks for what you're doing.

It all comes down to two guys? That's insane. (There, I said it.) Look, I wish them both the best, but let's face it, like it or not none of us is going to be here indefinitely. When something happens to one or both of these two guys, what happens to the site? My guess is that we've been getting a preview of the answer: It's done.

Which is a real tragedy. There's more than a decade of great information on this site. The members will eventually all relocate elsewhere, but that information will all be gone.

Also: While marijuana might still be illegal most places, talking about it isn't. At least not yet, in the US. This is a completely legitimate website. It should be hosted by a professional web hosting service, run by a company, where if someone is sick, someone else does the job.

Finally, clearly the owner doesn't see it that way. Which I think bodes ill for those of us who love the site. Probably it won't amount to anything, but in case it might I'll propose this idea, which I hope will be passed on to the owner: Why not sell? Successful websites are worth money, and there are people who would be happy to buy the site and run it professionally.

Thanks for listening.
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it is run by a professional company, people get sick it happens
were not selling our website. thanks for the opinion though
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
sunni said:
it is run by a professional company, people get sick it happens
were not selling our website. thanks for the opinion though
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To which I'll add my own, again meant in the greatest respect;

The events of the last few weeks have made it clear that whatever procedures were in place in the past weren't enough to prevent a prolonged outage.

Rollitup has changed in the 6 years I've been here. While it was once just a hang out, now it's a fully supported social platform with paid advertising and people actively managing their careers here. You ARE a cultural touchstone oriented forum. This is an extremely valuable property at this time in our history, and deeper care should be taken to protect that value.

I think that motive and opportunity can come together to fuel an even better online experience with better uptime. No one is disputing that a ten day outage is all but unacceptable today, that's honest and I'm not asking for redress.

On the other hand, what I want to point out is that now more than ever, the site's return on the investment in better uptime will be well worth it in terms of growing its value to connect people in this dynamically growing industry and lifestyle.
 
Pig4buzz

Pig4buzz

Well-Known Member
sunni said:
I finally have a moment from this crazy hectic show down to let you all know finally what has happened, happening etc
due to my personal life and downtime times it was harder than expected to get word out

Our network received a DDos attack, which you are all aware of
we were not the subject of the attack as several other places are on this network.

during this attack we had a hardware failure/ malfunction because of this pictures broke, and currently are unable for uploading

while trying to fix said photos we took the website offline, which resulted in the secondary downtime, if you were a "lucky one" we were up for about an hour or so on on Tuesday
during which the forum was reset to feb 2016 , so we had to pull the website down again

Than our owner had a personal business matter outside of rollitup which cased him to have to do other work not in the same location as our rollitup area

in addition to that the reason this took so long is because from the get go of the ddos attack our website manager who fixes our website has been in critical condition in the hospital due to an illness.

Hes the only person who fixes our website, trying to find someone else to handle Rollitup is hard due to the nature of our website, our website guy is a trusted source and friend

Please give him your well wishes.

I do not have an eta on photo fixing at this time.
Thanks all the best
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So they have access all our photos?
 
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