The site is back up, yay! alx and I have worked for the past 24 hours to make sure that the site is protected against attacks like we had last night.
This is also a good chance for you to see the new, and more sophisticated backup system that we have. We've promised it before, and now we can literally rollback to 10 minutes ago (although it takes a good amount of time to rollback that much information. Literally GB worth of database information). If there is a problem at 12:17 (like last night) we can roll back to 11, or 11:10, or 11:30, or 11:40. Whenever we want.
Like I said on pownce, we are looking into a way to make the database restore a faster process, but at least we had backups to restore :)
On that note - yes, we had an open exploit last night. Luckily we had a backup to rollback to, and this also allowed us to patch that (and various other similar attacks) so that it doesn't happen again.
Thank you for your patience, it's a huge relief knowing that you guys don't hate us when this happens.
I'll be up for the next few hours just to make sure that everything is running alright and we don't have any problems. feel free to sMail me if you see anything odd :)
NOTICE: YOu may notice random s and other various weird symbols in forum posts, news comments, etc. This is just part of the new protection against this type of attack on SQL injection. We are now focusing on getting the specific areas of the site that have SQL holes in them fixed, and then we can disable this. I know, it makes things ugly :(
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Thankyou Keith and Alx for your hard work! Hope you guys get a good nights rest for all your efforts. <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
All right, Keith and Alx! <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
AHWWRRR I could never hate you guysss. <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_heart.gif" border="0" /> Much love. C:
Thank you two. Keith and Alex, you guys are awesome.rn[/hugs]rnrnThank you so much for everything you two do on Subeta.rnWE LOVE YOU. <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_heart.gif" border="0" />
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Uh guys, i won an angelic potion last night. Put it in my shop. Its not there.
ugly is good if it means we are safe <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
Yay, thanks for all of the work :3 question: are you still going to post that link to the newsletter that will work for everyone? I never got an email ._.;
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yay! thanks for your work!
Thank you two so much. <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
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Heey! Thats so great! <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_heart.gif" border="0" /> Thank you for your tireless work <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
Go, Alx and Keith! <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_grin.gif" border="0" /> You guys are awesome. (((hugs and cupcakes))) <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_heart.gif" border="0" />
I really appreciate all the effort you guys put in to get the site back up. Thank you!! <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_happy.gif" border="0" />
Yay. My friend Rose told me to read while subeta is down. I said.. "If I try to read while the site is down, it will just come back up." So I started reading and refreshed my page and BAM the site was up. Coincidental, yes but still funny. ^^ Thanks so much Keithe! You rock.
....and no, mr. keith sir, i don't believe anyone should HATE you because of downtime..but who does, that decides to mess witht he site?? that's just not cool. stupid people :/ sorry about them.
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Good to have it back <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
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Oh good. I wanted to get on earlier, but that was when it was down.rnIt's fun to have it back 8D.
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Finally. I was getting pretty restless. <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_grin.gif" border="0" />
Yay! <img src="http://images.subeta.net/smilies/6398_emoticon_happy.gif" border="0" />rnHappy to be back. BD