wolstech

Many people on Stevie are affected. The database server appears to be broken. It's up but returning access denied errors for the accounts.

Agreed. I suspect this is part of an effort to do to Stevie what we did to Johnny a few months back. Similar upgrades were performed, and we fixed the busted InnoDB support while at it. I just wish there had been notice...I published a software update on Saturday, and many sites are rejecting my software submissions because the forwarding links I use to track statistics return errors instead of 301 redirects right now.

cPanel definitely got upgraded. PHPMyAdmin was displaying a "This functionality is currently unavailable because a cPanel/WHM upgrade is in progress" message last night when I tried to log in. PhpPgAdmin was doing the same thing. cPanel went from 11.3x.x to 11.42.1, and I think MySQL went from 5.1.68 to 5.1.73 (though this may have happened earlier). If Krydos didn't know about it, then I'm confused. Nothing has been announced either publicly or to mods/admins, and only Krydos does major updates.

Nobodies does. Everyone on Stevie is affected. Not sure when it'll be fixed, but it was likely related to what looks to have been a cpanel update yesterday.

The database server is down entirely. Phpmyadmin is giving a message saying cpanel is being updated, which is odd.

The database server is just broken right now. Your account is not suspended.

MySQL is down right now. I tried to get into phpmyadmin too, but got a message saying cpanel was being updated.

It's likely related to the MySQL damage and repairs on Stevie. As of Friday, my external hosts also don't show up (granted I just have a % there), and also all of my innodb tables are showing as "in use" in phpmyadmin and are not usable. I can't check now, but I'll assume this is still the case. The fix is to wait.

Indeed suspended for cron, you had 6 jobs. As you're probably aware, the limit is 2 per day. You've been unsuspended.

You were suspended for spam. Your request over in the Suspended forum has been escalated: http://www.helionet.org/index/topic/21724-suspended-fldstn/

You were suspended for spam. Escalating.

I just used it 20 minutes ago. It does take a minute or two to open sometimes, but I've never had it error out. Try another PC and network connection. It's possible your ISP or PC is to blame.

I'll split this off and escalate it for you. It's likely related to our phishing issue.

You can't. Our system does in fact prevent users from registering with a number as the first character (though numbers can be used in subsequent characters). Someone else tried this a while back. We have over 20000 accounts, not a single one starts with a number.

That explains it. My post was wrong in that case since I'd assumed you'd already changed that password. Marked solved

@Tjoene: His site is not what's broken. His error suggests that his cPanel mysql account (equivalent to root for that user) is missing, and PHPMyAdmin also does not work even after changing his password. PHPMyAdmin should work regardless of any database users he creates (it'd work even if he didn't make any) since it uses his cPanel mysql account. Odds are he can't recreate the database users either, though he didn't mention trying. Unmarked as solved.

@Krydos: Can this be installed? IIRC, we tried before and couldn't for some reason.

You were suspended for trying to send 46917 emails... Krydos will have more information, escalating.

There's probably something else wrong with your account, especially if you get a blank page. Have you tried another PC? In the mean time, I've removed the solved tag for you.

You generally need to install an antispam mod that makes it impossible for the bot to ever register (your best bet are those that ask a question like "What color is the ball in this picture? (picture here)" that a bot won't understand). Captchas also help, but bots are getting very good at them these days. Or you can just disable the email functionality entirely. It won't fix your forum being abused, but it will reduce the odds of being suspended again.

To add to tjoene, the reason given for the suspension was: We received an abuse report for the account. The content shows that it appears to be a spambot registering on a forum at http://sgg.heliohost.org/phpbb. It picked a real email address, and the owner of the email address reported the registration email as spam. Krydos has to make the final decision on this issue, but he often unsuspends these as long as you agree to fix the issue.

What port number? If it's not on a common web port (e.g. 21, 80, 443, etc.), it won't work. You would need to change the port used by the radio server to something we allow.

We don't keep any backups, so there is nothing to access.

We don't allow connections (in or out) on non-standard ports, so odds are our firewall is intentionally preventing that connection. What are you connecting to?

The fee is for a dedicated IP address, which is required for SSL. It's failing to enable because you do not have the dedicated IP.