April 13th, 2013, 05:22
(This post was last modified: April 19th, 2013, 16:14 by BRickAstley.)
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As you are likely well aware, we have been having problems with Realms Beyond going down intermittently, with an unusually large amount of incidents this last week. In an attempt to resolve that issue, we are going to be moving Realms Beyond to a new physical server, in order to increase its reliability and administrator access.
This is likely going to happen sometime next week, and we will have periods of scheduled downtime for certain steps of the transfer. I will make announcements using the QotM banner when I know specific times and dates for this downtime. This downtime could take the form either of complete inaccessibility, or of read-only access.
Besides that downtime, there should be very few changes visible to users, so you don't need to worry about anything else on your end changing. Let me know if you have any other questions.
EDIT: Server migration should be complete.
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Can we finally fix the remaining malware?
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(April 13th, 2013, 05:33)NobleHelium Wrote: Can we finally fix the remaining malware?
Since this will be on a machine that we will be able to directly manage, we should have access to better check for any remaining malware, yes.
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April 13th, 2013, 07:23
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(April 13th, 2013, 07:08)Jowy Wrote: What malware?
There's some code from an infection we used to had that will hijack certain pages on our site and send users to a site of questionable intent. We got rid of the main problem a while back, but there are still some remnants that haven't been found yet that cause redirects.
If you haven't been directed to a weird webpage off-site when browsing RB then don't worry, you're in the clear.
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Sounds like great news.
I have to run.
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The teeming multitudes demand technical details -- we're going to run this in a virtualbox instance on someone's seven year old laptop, right?  
Good luck with the migration.
April 13th, 2013, 14:37
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That would be better than the current situation if it comes with SSH (and root, of course). 
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(April 13th, 2013, 14:36)spacetyrantxenu Wrote: The teeming multitudes demand technical details -- we're going to run this in a virtualbox instance on someone's seven year old laptop, right?
Good luck with the migration.
Close: We're actually running it on an old souped up Commodore 64 I found at a yard sale. It runs surprisingly well, so don't be alarmed!
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Good Stuff, and thanks for the update. Had been wondering what was up with all the timeouts and MyBB errors.
May I suggest a Nokia N-Gage for your virtual host.
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