Bear Down Wildcats

Our host has informed me that they are upgrading some hardware and our site will be down for approximately 30 minutes sometime between10-2am MDT overnight.

I've heard this story before somewhere...

Lol!

No whining you freeloaders!

I guess I'll see you guys next Thursday.

I hope we are getting that long awaited upgrade that completely freezes everything up

I knew this day was coming, so I started a Wildcat fan community www.GoAzVagabondMustacheCats.com.

Follow me. Follow me... To freedom!

Ha ha. Don't worry folks, I've used this host for 15 years. Longest outage I've ever experienced is about an hour.

I want my money back.

Did Silvestrefelem talk you into this 'upgrade'?

If there was any rep to be passed around I'd have spent it all in this thread. Thanks guys!

Chicat wrote:I want my money back.

Premium will not be down during this outage.

UAEebs86 wrote:

Chicat wrote:I want my money back.

Premium will not be down during this outage.

Too late. I just spent 4 1/2 hours on the phone cancelling my subscription.

That was pretty painless. Lol. Guess I slept thru the downtime.

ok, so it wasn't down overnight (well, for me where I live at least).....

but who broke the server this time?

I'm putting my money on Chicat.

PieceOfMeat wrote:ok, so it wasn't down overnight (well, for me where I live at least).....

but who broke the server this time?

I'm putting my money on Chicat.

Wasn’t me.

Definitely deep state bad actors funded by Ace.

We're back

Oh thank god

Praise Jeebus!!!

Hells yeah, cst is back in the sand box!

So sorry for the downtime. We had an exploitable script that someone used to set up a SQL database on our server. A mass crush data transfer a few days ago from the malicious database got our account suspended until the cause of the high traffic had been rooted out. At least now we know we can increase our badwidth use 8 fold before issues arise.

Sorry for the inconvenience! So frustrating.

UAdevil wrote:So sorry for the downtime. We had an exploitable script that someone used to set up a SQL database on our server. A mass crush data transfer a few days ago from the malicious database got our account suspended until the cause of the high traffic had been rooted out. At least now we know we can increase our badwidth use 8 fold before issues arise.

Sorry for the inconvenience! So frustrating.

We will be taking the lost revenue out of your salary here at BearDownWildcats.

I want to remind folks they should follow our social media posts, especially if this site goes dark for any reason, like it did over the last couple days.

facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/732511483512049/

and Twitter

https://twitter.com/BdwPom

Ron, I know we talked about this before but I think it's time to put a donate button at the top of the main index page.

Or a Patreon.

azgreg wrote:Ron, I know we talked about this before but I think it's time to put a donate button at the top of the main index page.

I clicked on the $10 cash back from eBates 5 different times, so even if I get one of those will be glad to send that over.

But in other good news, I was quite productive at work.

Bruins01 wrote:Or a Patreon.

Not a bad idea.

not convinced about Patreon. They seem to shut down projects for no reason and then refuse to respond to legitimate queries. Beware.

Anyone having any issues with the site today?

This afternoon I keep getting errors (site sent no data, or something similar to that).

I'm not sure if it's on my end (crappy isp) or if it's the site.

No problems here

84Cat wrote:No problems here

Thanks for the info. It's probably on my end then.

Seems to be a big influx of bot/spam accounts the last few days, much like what we were seeing at the end of March. Not saying there's going to be another outage, but be sure to know the social media accounts for the boards in case access gets shut down again so you can report an outage and get updates on when we'll be back up and running.

Chicat wrote:Seems to be a big influx of bot/spam accounts the last few days, much like what we were seeing at the end of March. Not saying there's going to be another outage, but be sure to know the social media accounts for the boards in case access gets shut down again so you can report an outage and get updates on when we'll be back up and running.

What are they on FB chi?

CalStateTempe wrote:

Chicat wrote:Seems to be a big influx of bot/spam accounts the last few days, much like what we were seeing at the end of March. Not saying there's going to be another outage, but be sure to know the social media accounts for the boards in case access gets shut down again so you can report an outage and get updates on when we'll be back up and running.

What are they on FB chi?

Search "Bear Down Wildcats".

Here are the links.

facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/732511483512049/

and Twitter

https://twitter.com/BdwPom

Alieberman wrote:Here are the links.

facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/732511483512049/

and Twitter

https://twitter.com/BdwPom

What about Myspace?