mod 135639 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Some of you may have noticed cerb down again today (That seams to be happening a lot lately) the hard drive on the main database server died and luckily this is a raid drive and the backup drive was fine. The server was offline most of the day as we had to take the server offline completely, put in a new hard drive and mirror the good raid drive back onto a new drive. It took us hours just to figure out what was going on. Anyway I learned some stuff today! Let me know if anyone notices anything missing or behaving wrong. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Meg O'Ryan 266444 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 OMG total cerb withdrawal today...thank you MOD for fixing the prob! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spud271 47779 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 My first full day to just sit at home and relax, and there was no CERB!!! Thanx for getting it fixed MOD! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PistolPete 61421 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Mod thanks for everything, so is the Raid you are talking about??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quick25 137 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Wow I just realized how big Cerb is in my everday life. Oh for the Mod....I am finding the threads are loading a little slower, nothing that is too huge to worry about. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waterrat 1261 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Mod, Thanks for the hard work in getting Cerb back on line Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 they are CRAWLING cause everyone is logging in now cause the site was offline. Too many DB connections all at once causes the server to turn into a snail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andee 220524 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 OMG total cerb withdrawal today...thank you MOD for fixing the prob! Agree, it was brutal! Thanks for getting us back on line. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Origin 268 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Thanks for your hardwork Mod. I was getting the shakes....shakes.. ...cerb and women addict.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Royalfun 55449 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Thanks Mod for your hard work. Instead of reading posts, I went to see my favorite SP.:bddog: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apex2006 1071 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Remember MOD! Keep the old one near the new one with a hammer next to it so that you can take out your anger on the old one! Remember my theory on having a second cell phone! You always need one that you can smash when you are frustrated. Apex Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato 160314 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Cerb withdrawal is a potentially very serious condition; its intensity is directly proportionate to the pleasure derived from cerb-related activities.;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted December 13, 2010 I can't win lately. The new drive died!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man they don't make stuff to last! Also someone was hacking at the site at the same time causing some DOS (Denial of service) and causing the server to run out of memory. I banned a bunch of IP address's from china as they were logging in and posting shit loads of spam (Some of the spam circumvented the moderators queue so some sort of hacking was involved) I think I may have pissed them off by banning the root IP's. Man I hate malicious hackers and spammers..... and hard drives!! This is becoming a full time job just keeping the server running.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato 160314 Report post Posted December 13, 2010 Thanks, mod. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BarrhavenWoody 10776 Report post Posted December 13, 2010 It seems to working great now. It hasn't been this fast in the last 2 weeks. Thanks for the hard work, MOD. :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PistolPete 61421 Report post Posted December 13, 2010 Funny I reported a spam message this afternoon, the thread and user is gone, and the site is very much quicker since this aft. I don't know if it had anything do with anything at all, but really like the speed now :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted December 13, 2010 I did ban his ip so it is possible Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apex2006 1071 Report post Posted December 14, 2010 I can't win lately. The new drive died!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man they don't make stuff to last! Also someone was hacking at the site at the same time causing some DOS (Denial of service) and causing the server to run out of memory. I banned a bunch of IP address's from china as they were logging in and posting shit loads of spam (Some of the spam circumvented the moderators queue so some sort of hacking was involved) I think I may have pissed them off by banning the root IP's. Man I hate malicious hackers and spammers..... and hard drives!! This is becoming a full time job just keeping the server running.... OK I did not understand some of the above, But I don't like the spamers either, it takes away from my CERB time! Can you bann all of China's IP address'? That ill teach um! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted December 14, 2010 You can actually. Most IP's are geo mapped so you can find out the region/country and ban them. Just locks out all the legit businessmen who travel. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apex2006 1071 Report post Posted December 14, 2010 But when you ban an IP address, that would only work if they have a static IP address, what if their IP's are dynamic and change every so often? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted December 14, 2010 even dynamic (changing) ip's are in the same network (your internet service provider purchases chains and registers them as to where in the world they resolve to in the dns ... they are all geo mapped to country and even city. you can ban entire chains or partial chains like 123.123.123.* would ban 123.123.123.1 right up to 123.123.123.250 (everything in between) 123.* would ban every ip starting with 123. so it's pretty powerful if you have a dynamic ip of 123.123.123.12 and you log off and come back in with a new ip it would be something like 123.123.123.44 (only the last segment usually changes... sometimes the last 2segments but the first two sets would always be the same) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apex2006 1071 Report post Posted December 14, 2010 I see! Now I am a little more edumacated than I was 15 mins ago! Cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites