Legion World Forums LEGION WORLD Science Police Headquarters Another Fine Mess...

Hi!

Let me tell you about the latest downtime. Last Saturday, the power supply on my personal computer burned out before I went to work. On Sunday, I had plans and wasn't able to get to a computer store (while they were open) to get a new power supply. Monday, I was able to get one, but when I replaced the bad with the new, I realized that the mother board had died as well. So I rushed to a nearby Office Depot and bought a new PC, 5 minutes before they closed, only to then log into the net to discover that LW was down (or more specifically the MB part).

It seems that PowWeb felt that the ultimatebb.cgi file was exceeding our resource allotment by PowWeb and they turned it off. Unfortunately, I didn't have access to my back ups, FTP, etc. So, Scott was kind enough to take the time to try and fix things. But anything he did, didn't matter, until PowWeb restored our ability to delete/replace/alter/etc. the ultimatebb.cgi file.

Today, I finally got a representative at PowWeb to let us regain access to the file. After I set up my old hard drive, I deleted the old ultimatebb and replaced it. That's why we're here again. Sorry! The delays are also due to the fact that today is my roommate's birthday and my BF is in town from NY. I kinda had other plans for today. But, I was able to find the time though to get this mess straigtened up.

Again sorry. I promise when I have the time and money, we'll be rid of our current server and their quirky ways.

I'm just glad we've got someone as conscientious as you watching our backs (just don't lower those eyes too much if the BF is around ). Thanks for all your hard work, and get back to your BF and roomie!!

Thanks Seymour!

Go out and have fun Gary. You deserve a good night out on the town.

And I'll be making another back up of the site for home tonight. Got one at work today so I have one at both places I have access. But, like you said, nothing would have worked until they restored access to the cgi file.

Thanks for all you do and for being you!

Thanks for all your efforts, guys! And keep in mind that even though PowWeb has been a little quirky, and we have suffered sporadic downtime, the vast majority of the time the boards have been up, so don't feel too bad if we have little outages every now and then.

*Whew*! At least no one realizes that I was in the midst of posting when the boards went down...

Good Work all... It sends a chill up my spine everytime Legion World is down... like I'm just about to start seeing red skies or fade out of existance or something...

Thanks!!!

We wouldn't do that to you Wayne. Not until you at least get to see Hellboy.

Thank you again for jumping through those hoops, these days more of 'em than ever, to keep this circus going.

What amount of bandwidth or system demand is contractually "excessive"? Did they give you a figure, so you could deal with it, or just arbitrarily cut LW.net off?

If you have only a handful of months left, it'd be worth the $25 cancellation fee to get your remaining money back from PowWeb and go to a new Web host immediately. I'll put up $5 of it right now if you'll do so ... who's with me?

They've screwed you over twice in three weeks, Gary, and you (and we) shouldn't have to put up with it. We have no shortage of inexpensive hosting providers. Their presence has ballooned in the marketplace even since last Summer.

Even if I had the money to move, I'm not sure I have the time open to make the move. Maybe in a few weeks. I'll see what I can do.

Anyway, even though by my reckoning we've got about 14 days left on our Google voodoo ward, I think it may have been a spider that spiked us. Cause our problem isn't bandwidth, it's "resource abuse" which means to me that we're overworking our server and causing problems with our cyber-neighbors.

I went again to this site (and even though it appears we're current), I added us again to be excluded by their spiders. I hope that it'll give us more time before this happens all over again.

And another "request" made by PowWeb support was that I restrict our permissions on our CGI files to 755 (read only from the web) instead of 777 (read and write). Unfortunately, there's a problem in that mindset, as to do that would make this site unusable. This entire message board is made up of CGI files. This very thread is one. If I made these read only, then we couldn't post messages. Just read the ones that are already here. Even if I wanted to stay with them, I couldn't. They're getting pretty adamant about me changing "our" permissions on our files.

You can't turn on/use the ultimatebb.php file, to maybe get round that?

I've tried using PHP here. I only get error messages when I do. I believe that Rob K. had similar problems while at PowWeb.

Nighty, if and when you ever come over to the sunny UK Sonnie and I will take you out for a mad weekend as thanks for all the love and dedication you put into this site.



Bx

Thanks! I try. I REALLY, REALLY hate it when we aren't up and working and it's not my fault.

So you love it when we're down and broken and it IS your fault?

Agreed! Everything can't be right all the time, we'd get too spoiled!

You guys are the best, so try not to stress out over it TOO much Gary !

Wow, all this agravation, just for us? This mangy bunch? I'm with Grey, you say where and when, and my five bucks are there. And that is no where near the amount of enjoyment you folk have provided. Thanks for the work you do.

Thanks guys! I really appreciate the sentiments! You guys have made this place, a place worth aggravating over!

Hmmm, I didn't realize I'd be able to blame Gary if it ever turns out I'm not "up and working"

Really, it's not MY fault! It's Gary's fault that I'm not up and working! See he admitted it right there!

Then again, I might have to explain WHO Gary is and HOW he could be responsible.....

Never mind!