tobi Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Mate, no one here is COMPLAINING of the services you give for FREE. That's not the point. The point is, even if it is free, it would be nice some quality or reliability. Because not even the most needy people wants, or needs, bad products and services just because it's FREE. You just contradicted yourself there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiller.sacco Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Hey, come on guys. Be RESPECTFUL here. Djbob here is giving you FREE service. He does not need for all of you to plead to him and complain to him about his service! He has all the right in the world to shut the whole thing down. The only reason you all would care is because YOU would be losing your precious money because your site is down. You guys need to realize that Djbob is spending his time and money fixing this site so that you all can use your free little websites again. I suggest you have a little respect for him! If your service needs that reliable of uptime, you should buy your own site and your own domain. Gosh. And I'm probably the youngest user here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garret Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Okay, so I'm slicing my estimate. Maybe Saturday? Basically, there are three steps: 1) Find potentially offending data [done]. 2) Process data into categories of accounts [done]. 3) Move each category to its own IP [script currently running]. 4) Get datacenter to unblock the old IP. Note to self: don't forget to change the main account IP back and reenable the signup script. Woo Hoo! Glorious news!! Thanks for the info too, good stuff to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendy Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 HelioHost is the best free host service. Therefore, I always vote for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helladamnleet Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Hey, come on guys. Be RESPECTFUL here. Djbob here is giving you FREE service. He does not need for all of you to plead to him and complain to him about his service! He has all the right in the world to shut the whole thing down. The only reason you all would care is because YOU would be losing your precious money because your site is down. You guys need to realize that Djbob is spending his time and money fixing this site so that you all can use your free little websites again. I suggest you have a little respect for him! If your service needs that reliable of uptime, you should buy your own site and your own domain. Gosh. And I'm probably the youngest user here too. Yea? What site is yours? Do you get a lot of traffic? What's the format? Maybe we can help eachother out once the sites are back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z403 Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 yeah, I just agree so much with SSH, Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted May 7, 2010 Author Share Posted May 7, 2010 I'm adding an extra 3.5 step - distribute remaining accounts between IPs. I'm doing this to prevent future downtime in the case of another DDoS attack. I've written a script to do this, and I'm dry-running it right now. If it's successful, I'll wet-run it and once it's done I'll request the change in IP. Also, all today (and perhaps part of tomorrow) we'll have lots of "Account Queued" messages due to IP moves. Don't worry; your sites will be back up ASAP. Those with dedicated IPs - they will have disappeared, so you'll have to re-request them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojo Maquiling Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I'm adding an extra 3.5 step - distribute remaining accounts between IPs. I'm doing this to prevent future downtime in the case of another DDoS attack. I've written a script to do this, and I'm dry-running it right now. If it's successful, I'll wet-run it and once it's done I'll request the change in IP. Also, all today (and perhaps part of tomorrow) we'll have lots of "Account Queued" messages due to IP moves. Don't worry; your sites will be back up ASAP. Those with dedicated IPs - they will have disappeared, so you'll have to re-request them. Thanks for this info. I was worried a bit earlier why my site (kadjo.org) is still "account queued". Anyway guys thanks for all the good job and giving us the free space. More power to you all and God bless you. Jojo Maquiling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiller.sacco Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Hey, come on guys. Be RESPECTFUL here. Djbob here is giving you FREE service. He does not need for all of you to plead to him and complain to him about his service! He has all the right in the world to shut the whole thing down. The only reason you all would care is because YOU would be losing your precious money because your site is down. You guys need to realize that Djbob is spending his time and money fixing this site so that you all can use your free little websites again. I suggest you have a little respect for him! If your service needs that reliable of uptime, you should buy your own site and your own domain. Gosh. And I'm probably the youngest user here too. Yea? What site is yours? Do you get a lot of traffic? What's the format? Maybe we can help eachother out once the sites are back up. Sure, I am quite new to this... I could use all the help I can get. I haven't actually created my site yet, as you can see, I registered in the middle of the attack. I have not even started my site out yet. I appreciate the offer, but since it is off topic, maybe you should PM me? Djbob, I'm glad you're getting closer! It's always good to make sure that a similar attack will never again. After all, you never know who could be behind this kind of thing, they could always try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share Posted May 8, 2010 So there was some trouble with Ruby where active_support (part of RoR) was conflicting with the rand gem (which I was using in a script). I have since corrected the issue and filed a bug report with the RoR folks. The final script is running. After this guy is done, we're moving over the IP. This script is going to pull a lot of sites offline (with the "Account Queued" message), so don't worry if yours goes down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helladamnleet Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Cleared my cache and it still doesn't appear to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beluga Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 If you get the non-profit status, maybe HelioHost users could give direct support through http://www.goodsearch.com/ The search is a bit sucky (Yahoo), but there's also the online shopping possibility (Amazon, eBay..). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 My Website Says: HELIOHOST ACCOUNT QUEUED Ahoy! You're seeing this page because HelioHost has not gotten about to installing and configuring your account yet. This process usually takes 24 hours, and once it is complete your website should show up properly. While the account is being created we suggest taking a look at your control panel. Thanks for choosing HelioHost! We wish you good luck with your website. Sincerely, The HelioHost Staff Does that mean the accounts are coming Back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share Posted May 8, 2010 Within five hours of this post the final script should complete running, and Apache will restart. At that point about 3/4 of HelioHost's accounts will be active. I will then reenable the signup script, change the main IP, and issue an email to my ISP to unblock the IP that was blocked before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helladamnleet Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 My site is now giving me the qued state, which leads me to assume it will be back up tomorrow. Thanks, djbob! (and all the other admins involved in this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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