Thetownend.com

I noticed the forum was down earlier and have sorted it.

However, in an effort to make it run better I'm trialling something in the back end over the next 48 hours, so if there are any problems, downtime or notifications, please post them here. (I expect there are likely to be some issues.)

With any luck they'll be few and far between and the end result will be a quicker and more stable site. I hope. :)

Cheers.

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I was hoping this might be an autobiography.

Thanks, that one's been sorted and prompted me to add some security and tighten shit up. That error was registered over 3,700 times from about 13:30! :D

Will the upgrade stop witless puns and auto ban the users?

What have german motorways got to do with this ?

No. Bazza is lining up the puns.

You must be doing a good job. If my router's firewall logs are anything to go by, in comparison you must get a lot of attempts on the site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukUMRlaBBE

Most of mine appear to be from China and Russia, I can't start to imagine how many attacks the TEF must get.

What does "trialling something in the back end" mean? I'm not used to IT speak.

I took it as being more Richard Gere than IT.

Security wise I do very, very little. The server is fully managed so it kind of takes care of itself. The only thing I've done, server wise, is install suPHP, which I now see as compulsory and later learned my host now installs by default. I plan to get us on nginx and install FastCGI, but the server copes fine as things stand so there's no rush there.

I also added a spam mod in the forum which dropped spam and malicious shit by about 90%. Today I added CloudFlare (as I saw huge improvements on another site) and it also adds a nice layer of security.  


Testing something that wouldn't be noticed by your average user within the visible areas of the site. It's essentially something hidden behind the scenes making things work smoother - or at least that's the hope.

Likewise, someone with a Korean IP attempted an SSH attack on my NAS the other day. It's probably just botnets.

Yeah I doubt very much they are specific targetted attacks, they seem to be originating from Universities and institutions etc

For a thick twat like me, could you explain what a botnet is?

Oh, I was hoping there'd be a vote.

Lets begin with nominations

I nominate Fred for forum spaz. He's the forum spaz because he's not about enough.

I have no idea what a SSH attack is, or a NAS, or a botnet.  But my money's on Trig.

A network of computers infected with malware/a virus which are used as host machines to make attacks on other computers.

Beat me to it.  My money is also on Trig with 4D not very far behind.

But Trig is genuine!

You should get a real job instead of poncing around with  a calculator ;)

No thanks.  (I'll leave the 'real' jobs to the 'men'!)

i have noticed that as i scroll down it takes me back to the top of the page as get i get to a new post. So as i read post 3 it scrolls back to the top automatically, i then scroll down to post 4 & it goes back up to the top of the page before i can get to post 5 & so on. It is only doing it on this site, i have tried on other sites & it is fine.

Butt plug? Has it been sore?

Sorry

There are plenty of candidates for forum spaz. I'm not nominating though

I had a meeting in the head office of a rather large computer internet security company (the yellow one) and in the meeting room they had a threatcon level and showed which country was hacking each other the most and which viruses are about to take over the world... quite interesting to watch....more so than my meeting!

The US, Russia, China & Korea seemed to be battling it out for top spot in the hacking stakes

Was it like this

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bigger - i'm pretty sure there was a button in there that could stop the internet

Is it just me, or since the tweak and downtime earlier, is the forum now much faster?

So you caused the forum spaz then, I see.

Barry, it is usually pretty quick for me. Except when it just hangs. Not noticed it hang since the tweak.

It may be the cider. It may be the gin, I haven't understood a post in the past 2 pages.

I always thought I was the forum spaz

You're not on here enough to claim the title.

Back to laggy again now Baz :(

Damn i was expecting a vote  >:(

It seems very laggy when opening up initially but I havent had the random errors that we had yesterday ..... so far.

Go on then, I'll vote for you.  ;)

Ouch, not been good so far this morning.

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I had that come up a few times as well.

That's the error I've been anticipating. Hopefully it should right itself in due course. Another 24 hours and with any luck we'll be golden.

Pint, please.

I just had that message as well.

I keep getting that CloudFlare page today. Forum seems quite slow too.

ditto sam. almost everytime i log on

Yup same here shiiiiiiiiiiite

As mentioned, painfully slow today

Had this just now a couple of times, normally when i try to open a  new topic. I press the try for a live session & it works again until i try a different topic.

Same for me today

just had the same problem here

Hit by the cloudthingy spazmamong as well.

Me too. Something about a cached version. Clicked a button for live version and hey presto!

Yeah, sorry all, I'm not sure CloudFlare is the way forward. I'll try something else shortly!

It's been spazzing up for me all day too.

Not in the last hour or so though.

The only Spazzing I get is you....you cunt!

Getting the CloudFlare spazzy screen a lot today.

Though there is now a saved cached version for me, taken at about 8am this morning.

I'm having a lot of problems getting on here  - anyone else?

Seems OK here, but have previously noticed every now and again you can't get in. Assumed it was same issue as web version.

I haven't been able to get in at all this afternoon up until now.  I haven't had any sort of error message though.

I'm moving hosts one evening this week, time permitting, so sorry for any probs and sit tight. Merci. :)

OK here  and the normal web version. Maybe a tad slower but not too bad.

Perhaps it's just me, but has the forum seemed quite good the last few days?

I hoped to be on a new server by tomorrow morning - I planned to move tonight in time for the first game - but this side of me not sleeping tonight, or not sitting on the sofa and watching tv for the next few hours, it's not going to happen.

I don't want to do it tomorrow morning, hours before a game, in case shit doesn't work, so we'll hopefully have a new fast as fuck server in a few days.

Has been better the last two days or so Barry.

I think it has improved from having problems earlier in the week to much better yesterday and today.

Thanks. All part of the fun I suppose - sort out a new server and the old one wakes up!

The new one's fucking smoking though. I've now got it live and running, albeit with a few hiccoughs, but I'm tired. Bed time. Zzzzzzz

Sorry about that, trying to move server, something fucked up and I don't have the time to solve it now. What an absolute cunt, everything went perfectly in my trials! I'll attempt it again later.

I enjoyed the status updates throughout...

Me too.  Much more informative than contact system administrator or press any key to continue.

Fucking shit cunt is all I have to say. Won't be doing that again in the middle of a day when I should be doing something else.

Hello, I'm new here, so sorry if I missed a FAQ or something, but...

I get this message when I attempt to add an avatar to my profile:


Am I doing something wrong or does this relate to the recent/ongoing upgrades?

Thanks

The image size is probably too big, I can't remember the correct dimensions for it.

May be something different though.

No luck, still same message. Thanks though.

It's a permissions issue that refuses to be corrected I'm afraid. We'll be moving to a new server soon, which will resolve tha issue.

Ahh, I thought I was doing it wrong. Cheers

I had that issue to.

It's OK now. Change your avatars at will. But don't be surprised if it stops working again!

Anyone else seeing grim reapers everywhere?  I've got them next to everyones avatars.

Nope.

Its a sign. You're going to die, soon....

Dammit.

Nochee can't get on and appears to be banned. Any idea what going on bazza?

I'll have a check. See if I can work out why. What message does he receive do you know? Can he view the forum, just can't login?

Should be fine now. It's to do with where he is.

The forum has spazzed out for half the day

What sort of spazzing?

The website is down message, click for live version etc.

Been fine for me all day.


cue it crashing the second I post this.

It was fine all day on my PC, but crapped out with the "click for live version" on my phone. Odd.

I'm back in the game.

Cheers to Arriba and Barry

I have a new server, but haven't had the time to move yet. Hopefully I'll do it this coming week, once my broadband is back.

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the forum via tapatalk? It hasn't worked since Saturday for me.

I also had loads of problems getting to the forum on both my PC and laptop but that seems fine now.

Tapatalk is working ok for me

Tapatalk OK here too.  Although yesterday and over the weekend it would change from working fine to being really slow.

Not sure what's wrong with tapatalk, it's something to do with not being able to decompress, compressed HTTP requests. Well, nothing's changed, so I'm a bit flummoxed, because I can't get on either. Clearly some come can, which seems puzzling.

Seems to be down for a few minutes every now and again.

It's painfully slow to load for me at the moment (compared to other sites i visit)

it is very slow and keeps sending me to cloudflare

yep me to

This

Same here.

When it goes to the Cloudfare site there is a link that says try again for an online version of site... Click that and it springs back to life every time.

This was worse than ever for me yesterday.

75% of the time I got the cloudfare thingamy. The times it did go through to the home page I nearly always got the cloudfare gubbins when trying to open threads.

Getting awful probs getting onto tef from my work pc getting as far as the cloudflare site and telling me I infected but not letting me get any further this was since I cleared my cookies and temp internet files can only get on from my mobile is there a way around this ?

yes

do some work instead

Applies to you as well spazbot....

Sorry for all the problems, I'll see if I can sort it later this afternoon.

Touch wood, i've had no problems.

Cue for it to die the second I click post...

hahahaha

Im off today

Lucky you. So am I, but I'm looking after a poorly wife and lunatic child.....and working!

I'm unable to access anything from my laptop, to sort the problem, until after 23:00 due to a block I stupidly applied. (To stop me doing a Fred/Pumbaa.)

It's working - it obviously got a bit scared of you doing anything sir

Oh and Fred I was working...most of the time :>)

I .see the cloudfare access problem is back again

Still playing up Barry can't get in again

FAO mods/Barry: Flashheart/Bangkok Red is asking on fb if someone can have a look at his account as he's not been able to get in all day

Cheers Paul. Somebody just turned the magic back on (at least for now)

That must have been a good 10 hours or so that it didn't work at all. Nothing

You obviously don't have enough internet over there

Internet is a tad sparse in this neck of the woods.

Been getting Cloud Browse quite a lot lately.

Same.

Ditto

Anybody else been getting capthca requests?

Do you have a static IP? If you do I can white list it, but it could be because there's a lot of similar IPs spamming currently.

CloudFlare wouldn't let me on without captcha for some reason, I had to white list myself. Didn't stop other sites throwing up a captcha though!

Yeah

It's understandable though that hosts may consider a Thai ISP address dodgy.

You're on the whitelist now, so you won't get anymore captchas.

Cheers

It sounds exclusive!

Fucking cliques  :D

 :D

Hope you had a good day sir.

Christmas drinkies

Why oh why do I always miss the best games.

Fair play to the boys, sounded top drawer

You all ready for Santa ?