System Updates Thread ...7/21/20 . Security and Pictures

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Leon

Oh Yeah...he picks up the phone and I say hello...he says Hi Leon....yeah, they know me.

Concerning the major attachment loss that has happened including our whole community photo album, the hosting company is doing a restore from 24 hours before these problems started. All of this is being done with the offline backups they keep. I had to pick a time and that was the least loss....and it isn't for sure either. The files could be majorly corrupted beyond repair. I have a DBA person that might be able to help some too. We really need to get squared away before we upgrade. More updates as I know them. And to reiterate, any downtime will be scheduled at very off hours. And hopefully our next downtime is scheduled. I wouldn't bet on it though.,


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I'm confused why someone would want to send an attack on your site. We are all cardboard nerds. What's the point?

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

I'm confused why someone would want to send an attack on your site. We are all cardboard nerds. What's the point?

Possibly a disgruntle member or someone with an interest in seeing this site go down. I hope you don't lose all your relatively with the seach engine spiders. Whenever you do a keyword search with baseball cards, this platform seems to always pop up in top 10 with former discussions. Now who would benfit if net54 loss decades of these threads?

[dstudeba]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Possibly a disgruntle member or someone with an interest in seeing this site go down. I hope you don't lose all your relatively with the seach engine spiders. Whenever you do a keyword search with baseball cards, this platform seems to always pop up in top 10 with former discussions. Now who would benfit if net54 loss decades of these threads?

Possibly, but it could also easily be someone trying out an attack based on the software that is used. I would think it would be more likely they were going after the username/password combinations. Just a guess because the information on this site is important to such a small group of folks so why target it?

As for the search, you will still be able to search fine. Especially since most of the searches you do are relatively esoteric and isn't really found many places on the web. Despite the site become overly T206 heavy in recent years there is a great deal of interesting information held in these pages since Elliot started the board.

[Leon]

Hey Folks
I think I am going to shoot myself .....Can't really say how this is going to go. I am sorry. I am constantly talking to folks. There are corrupted files that just aren't coming back.

[brianp-beme]

Weloome Back Folks! No shooting of ourselves allowed.

Brian

[Leon]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Weloome Back Folks! No shooting of ourselves allowed.

Brian

I am becoming a skeleton from stress. ..... I was on the phone with the hosting company at 445 this morning...and lots of other times before and after....Even my prescription trazodone (for sleeping) isn't working....
A lot of pictures won't be up right now but we are still hopeful in getting them back...

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[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Leon

I am becoming a skeleton from stress. ..... I was on the phone with the hosting company at 445 this morning...and lots of other times before and after....Even my prescription trazodone (for sleeping) isn't working....

Thanks for all the efforts Leon, but stay away from the 'Stress Diet'. It is probably just a passing fad, and could have serious ramifications as well.

Brian

[conor912]

Maybe injecting bleach will help.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Leon

Hey Folks
I think I am going to shoot myself .....Can't really say how this is going to go. I am sorry. I am constantly talking to folks. There are corrupted files that just aren't coming back.

Leon,

Before you shoot, can you please make sure that I'm in your will. I wouldn't mind having a card in my collection with LL provenance. 20 years from now I'll be able to say that I have a LL card in my collection.


I think most of the board members understand, and if they don't, then the only advice to be given is to take a deep breath, count to 10 and hit the refresh button or start a Leon "go fund me" page to pay for the mental health bill that is coming...

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

I'm confused why someone would want to send an attack on your site. We are all cardboard nerds. What's the point?

True...though it would make a pretty good satirical mockumentary on the crazy cardboard nerds and their life and death feuding over baseball cards. I want to be played by George Clooney...but I suspect it would be Jeff Garlin.

[Leon]

The hosting company retrieved some picture/attachment data from a backup from one day before this stuff started happening. I am not sure how much but they are going to install it in our system at 3AM EST 7/10/2020 and we will taken off line (DOWN) at that time. It should be for about an hour. Hopefully this works or we can try another day back. Once we get this current system in good enough shape, get rid/fix corrupted files etc... we will do the upgrades. My intention is as soon as possible. The system has been a little shaky today as many will have seen it go down for a few minutes here or there. Each time I made a call and asked them to kick the server to get it going again. But that is getting old real quick. That is where we are at...thanks for everyone's patience.

PS...hosting company has a very good online tech support ticket system. But calling and getting someone to help "now" is quicker.


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[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

True...though it would make a pretty good satirical mockumentary on the crazy cardboard nerds and their life and death feuding over baseball cards. I want to be played by George Clooney...but I suspect it would be Jeff Garlin.

I think Weird Al would make a good "Doug"...

[wolf441]

Anyone who's been on NET54 for any length of time knows how much effort you put into this site.

I thank you for giving us a place to come to where we can enjoy our hobby with folks that are passionate about collecting. Stuff can always be rebuilt/replaced. Stay healthy and sane!

Best,

Steve

[hcv123]

Don't sweat the small stuff........and


It's ALL small stuff!


A day at a time my friend - do the best you can. Take a deep breath and know that you have built something appreciated by many.

[gabrinus]

Thanks for busting your ass Leon!!...a lot of us use this site as our archive...especially of cards we no longer have...and scans on computers we no longer have...Jerry

[Rhotchkiss]

Hang in there Leon, we all appreciate the effort and sympathize with the stress. If there is anything we can do, just ask - we are a community of diverse talents and abilities, who will likely do whatever they/we can to help. Just ask and I would bet many would be happy to help.

And I just saw the sticky post about systems administrators, nice! Unfortunately, I am horrible with technology.

[Tom S.]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

I'm confused why someone would want to send an attack on your site. We are all cardboard nerds. What's the point?

Crazy isn't it? As long as we don't say uncle we should get through this okay.

Thanks Leon for everything you're doing to keep the site stable!

[brianp-beme]

As we head into the two minute warning, I will cross my fingers and toes and wish the forum the best of luck!

Brian

[Leon]

It looks like we got a lot of pictures back. WE did not get the community picture albums yet. I will look into getting that section back too. Other than community picture album not working (yet, hopefully) I would like to hear other issues being seen? And the system is still a bit wobbly and might be until we get these upgrades done. I have someone lined up this weekend to do the upgrades, if the outstanding issues get resolved first . OR if they won't be able to be resolved. Still some unknowns....