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#1 User is offline   tum0r 

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Posted 21 February 2008 - 10:23 PM

i notice its been down for almost 2 days. anybody care to comment on what happened?

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Posted 21 February 2008 - 11:27 PM

When I do to wincert.net, it says:

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Wincert.net is temporarily down due to a server transfer! We'll be back in a while.


That seems like an explanation.

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Posted 21 February 2008 - 11:52 PM

Hi there,

WinCert.net will be back soon.
We moved to another host and now have to restore Forum DB.

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Posted 22 February 2008 - 12:55 AM

ok cool. i didnt see the part about hosting change....
thanks for the nfo

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 01:10 AM

Wincert forum is back online!

Thx for raising this topic :hello:

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Posted 24 February 2008 - 04:28 PM

Now we just wait for the DNS to propagate through the internet... :P

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Posted 05 March 2008 - 08:35 PM

I just tried going to Wincert.net and it showed a page saying:

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This Account Has Been Suspended

Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

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Posted 05 March 2008 - 08:39 PM

View Postanonymous_user, on Mar 5 2008, 09:35 PM, said:

I just tried going to Wincert.net and it showed a page saying:

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This Account Has Been Suspended

Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.


WinCert is moving to a dedicated server, due to the hits it has been getting. So it maybe down for another couple days until the move is done.

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 01:03 AM

Well, to be honest I don't know what to do now. Here is the answer from our current shared hosting support team:

This user without any doubt needs a dedicated server. It is not his
bandwidth or space storage, his forum user connections is what creating the
cpu load.

Dedicated hosting server costs about 150$/month and my current payments don't cover that nor I haven't received any donations except one from JurgenDoe...

I suspect on a hack, since it's not happening all the time.. There were no problems for 3 weeks since we moved to another server, until now.. :realmad:

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 07:38 PM

View PostN1K, on Mar 6 2008, 02:03 AM, said:

Well, to be honest I don't know what to do now. Here is the answer from our current shared hosting support team:

This user without any doubt needs a dedicated server. It is not his
bandwidth or space storage, his forum user connections is what creating the
cpu load.

Dedicated hosting server costs about 150$/month and my current payments don't cover that nor I haven't received any donations except one from JurgenDoe...

I suspect on a hack, since it's not happening all the time.. There were no problems for 3 weeks since we moved to another server, until now.. :realmad:

I'm curious... What have your monthly stats been like? CPU load, number of members, bandwidth usage, etc.?

Have you looked into VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting instead of a dedicated one?

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 08:25 PM

View Postgamehead200, on Mar 6 2008, 09:38 PM, said:

View PostN1K, on Mar 6 2008, 02:03 AM, said:

Well, to be honest I don't know what to do now. Here is the answer from our current shared hosting support team:

This user without any doubt needs a dedicated server. It is not his
bandwidth or space storage, his forum user connections is what creating the
cpu load.

Dedicated hosting server costs about 150$/month and my current payments don't cover that nor I haven't received any donations except one from JurgenDoe...

I suspect on a hack, since it's not happening all the time.. There were no problems for 3 weeks since we moved to another server, until now.. :realmad:

I'm curious... What have your monthly stats been like? CPU load, number of members, bandwidth usage, etc.?

Have you looked into VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting instead of a dedicated one?

Last I heared from N1K the load was at 33% I believe. Also, I just found out that WinCert was Hacked.

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:13 PM

It was hacked again? How? Give some details. :)

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:27 PM

View PostTarun, on Mar 6 2008, 11:13 PM, said:

It was hacked again? How? Give some details. :)

I don't have the details. :( It's just in Ricktendo's IM display message.

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 07:35 AM

We have some beliefs that we're hacked, but it's not 100% positive yet. IPS Suipport along with a friend of mine are investigating this issue, although the hosting company said that Wincert.net without any doubt should go to dedicated hosting.

@gamehead200
Our stats which I can give you are:

5000-8000 daily visitors
2-3 million page views/month
80-110 GB bandwidth/month

5500+ members..

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 04:49 PM

N1K, have you considered VPS hosting like I mentioned above?

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 05:46 PM

View Postgamehead200, on Mar 7 2008, 11:49 PM, said:

N1K, have you considered VPS hosting like I mentioned above?

I just bought a semi-dedicated machine with 3 sites up, with 8 Xeon processors and 4 Gigs of ram..

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 05:47 PM

If the site got hacked we should shoot this humming birds :wacko:

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Posted 08 March 2008 - 03:28 PM

We're back online. :hello:

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Posted 09 March 2008 - 04:58 AM

:thumbup Great to see wincert back up :D

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 04:06 AM

Great WinCert is good.

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