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Login with your regular P4TM Creds. Let’s see what happens?

Not sure if the constant barrage fucked it more but the P4TM database is having problems too so I think it’s time.
But lets not start saying our goodbyes just yet. I am not going to approve comments to be shown here but I can see the comments you make in the admin here, so please feel free to give feedback.

I don’t think I can bring the old P4TM back. What I am trying to do is to create a new forum install using updated forum (MyBB) and server software on one of the other domain names. I seemingly was able to import the vB USER DB tables over to it. So we would have a fresh new forum and your old P4TM user/pass should work. You might have to do a password reset at worst. It also appears that I was able to import all Private Messages from the old vB backup. I can’t see other folks messages but it seemed to work for me. I tried for days to import threads/posts but the whole thing is either too incompatible with the merge system (we had a TON of mods) or the database is just too corrupted.

This new install should run just fine on a VPS (virtual private server) and the one I picked up is running $50/mo instead of $178/mo that the current dedicated costs. I am still ironing out some DNS issues to get domains to resolve properly to the new VPS so keep an eye out here. Within the next day or two I will post here asking for some of you to try logging in to the new forum install and see if the user merge worked. It will legit be an empty board but it will still be our place and we can make it what we want.

It won’t happen overnight but if y’all want it, I will try to make it happen. I am super busy with real life this week so it might take a few days but keep an eye out here later in the week.

The minuite I opened the site back up today it was flooded again, I saw over 10,000 guests at one point. I have no idea what is actually going on either. It’s an old install running on old versions of server software and probably has a million vulnerabilities at this point. I don’t know if it’s a nuisance thing or an attack thing and any real “fix” would certainly involve updating shit and cause the site not to run. And I was never an IT guy to start and I have long forgotten how to do much of anything with servers and coding that I had at all.

I am currently blocking all IP addresses except my own which seems to block the bots fine so far. I might “suspend” it again too so don’t be surprised if you see that. I will update again probably tomorrow. =/ -Chef

@ 1:40am EST, Still having issues and I can’t imagine having thousands of “guests” hitting the site is just a coincidence. Even with the forum turned off it was still fucking up. So I “Suspended” the hosting account in the hope that they will move on. I will reinstate the account tomorrow around Noon time EST. -Chef

EDIT@ 9:30pm EST: I don’t really know what’s up. It works fine for a minute then shit lags and times out. But the server isn’t stressed in any way I can see. Then I notices the “Who’s Online” showed over 2500 “guests” so I figured it was some kind of bot fishing attack? But again, it’s weird because the server is not “busy”. I even blocked all IPs but my own and even then it was still happening off and on. Again, I dunno. I stopped blocking all IPs and a bunch of “users” showed up again so I just turned the forums OFF for now. In a few hours I will check it out and see what’s going on. But I don’t know what to do with it. -Chef

Juan reported database errors and non-loading pages. The server itself seems fine as other sites on it are loading fine. I am going to try running some optimize/repair routines on the database and a reboot and we will see how that goes. -Chef