Administrator Lite Posted February 27, 2012 Administrator Share Posted February 27, 2012 <img src="http://www.nsanedown.com/images/logos/News.png" class="logo" alt="news">We are happy to annouce that nsane.forums has been moved to a new server. The new server allows for continued expansion of the site.Due to a few complications, we would like to apologies for the loss of any posts, PMs and status updates which have been lost in the past few hours. (And for the related downtime)As always all comments and feedback is welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezurrection Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 np....its time for baby to grow... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Nice. Thanks :party: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 y'all had to do this just as I reinstalled my OS, and had me freaking out that America had Wiped out the internet. Kept getting 404 and 501 errors... Eventually, it's weird, but google had a cached copy of the entire site and forums, and i used the cached copy to get the links for the programs. Apparently google has a copy of the entire internet... Isn't that strange how google indexes everything and copies everything... and it copied the thread as if it were a registered user... think the USA or google is watching everything we do here??Edit: Still getting db error: 1054 on nsanedown.com...Guys, you all are killing me here! i just wiped my HDD because of an encryption mistake. i thought i'd get all my programs back from here... Now the site is down... What am i gonna do? I have school in the morning and no microsoft word, no Nitro PDF, no drivers and no games!! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzyb0t Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 What am i gonna do? I have school in the morning and no microsoft word, no Nitro PDF, no drivers and no games!! :( Go to sleep? :lol: Edit: On a serious note. 1) Open Office or Libre Office 2) Foxit PDF 3) kongregate.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Go to sleep? :lol: That's so not what I meant... Anyway, GOD BLESS whoever came up with the idea of torrentz :) And the cached links on google still work :) Google is watching everything we say... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
need4steer Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I'm having "db error: 1054" too anytime I'm trying accessing http://www.nsanedown.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Nice. It's good to see nsane is growing up. When will nsanedown site be up again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobrPatty Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Great news. Solidifies nsanes reputation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 It is me and my ISP giving me trouble or nsaneforums background takes ages to load? (test.nsaneforums.com is the connection doing that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SacredCultivator Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I'm also having some issues with the frontpage =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I've restored a static backup (from yesterday evening) of the database on the frontpage server, so the frontpage will not be updated until we figure out what's screwing up everything all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grouchysmurf Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Ahhhh, baby is growing. And on my birthday too!! Whoohooo!!!! :party: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 The server problems have been fixed (well, fixed enough in order to avoid any further service disruptions), should be smooth sailing (for you guys) from here on :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 The server problems have been fixed (well, fixed enough in order to avoid any further service disruptions), should be smooth sailing (for you guys) from here on :) Thank you shought. Site diagonistics reveal that the server response is timely and all scripts are working. For some reason it is faster :) Did you iron out the 20 min wait time for a failed download's next attempt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 27, 2012 Administrator Share Posted February 27, 2012 Did you iron out the 20 min wait time for a failed download's next attempt? We have changed that some time ago. It's now 1min timer, if fails it, 5 mins, if it again fails, then you have to wait for 20mins. This keeps us safe against attacks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Did you iron out the 20 min wait time for a failed download's next attempt?We have changed that some time ago. It's now 1min timer, if fails it, 5 mins, if it again fails, then you have to wait for 20mins. This keeps us safe against attacks. :)Yep, took quite some time to code that, but we have to (1) stay safe and (2) provide the best we can :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Did you iron out the 20 min wait time for a failed download's next attempt?We have changed that some time ago. It's now 1min timer, if fails it, 5 mins, if it again fails, then you have to wait for 20mins. This keeps us safe against attacks. :)Yep, took quite some time to code that, but we have to (1) stay safe and (2) provide the best we can :D Awesome :) but i still think you should have had a counter that increases by 2^n seconds each attempt. See, if someone is trying to brute force DDOS the site, the first 20 attempts would not affect the server that much, but by then the waiting time would've made DDOS ineffective. The user waits 2 seconds, then 4, then 8 then 16 and so on... 2 attempts is an improvement, but the avereage user will still feel this if the download manager is playing up... just a suggestion. BTW: 2^20 seconds is 291 hours and the sum of 2^x from 1-15 is over a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Did you iron out the 20 min wait time for a failed download's next attempt?We have changed that some time ago. It's now 1min timer, if fails it, 5 mins, if it again fails, then you have to wait for 20mins. This keeps us safe against attacks. :)Yep, took quite some time to code that, but we have to (1) stay safe and (2) provide the best we can :D Awesome :) but i still think you should have had a counter that increases by 2^n seconds each attempt. See, if someone is trying to brute force DDOS the site, the first 20 attempts would not affect the server that much, but by then the waiting time would've made DDOS ineffective. The user waits 2 seconds, then 4, then 8 then 16 and so on... 2 attempts is an improvement, but the avereage user will still feel this if the download manager is playing up... just a suggestion. BTW: 2^20 seconds is 291 hours and the sum of 2^x from 1-15 is over a week. I think the 1 minute wait is quite reasonable, it automatically starts the download again so ;)It's not so much a DDoS protection as a bandwidth drain protection; suppose 1000 PCs downloaded a 4 MB file 10 times within 30 minutes we would be down 40GB. A DDoS would probably take our site down anyway (to be honest :P). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 It's not so much a DDoS protection as a bandwidth drain protection; suppose 1000 PCs downloaded a 4 MB file 10 times within 30 minutes we would be down 40GB. A DDoS would probably take our site down anyway (to be honest :P). A recent IP list. See, DDOS attacks make the same request within milliseconds of each other, hence, a recent IP list would stop this. If the last 10 download requests came from the same IP in under a second, block that IP. I could write the HTML for it if i had a copy of the site, but i'll just leave it as a suggestion... My specialty is c++ anyway :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Sure a recent IP list could fix this :) But it makes no sense to write PHP to collect IPs of every request toward any resource (CSS, Javascript, image, download, page).The firewall will (attempt) to stop any DDoS, but in practice we know it won't be able to stand up against a large enough DDoS ;)It's a nice suggestion, but I'm happy with the system the way it's coded now, maybe it's something we'll take into account later (when we rewrite the code again). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maytoyo Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I'm still nsane :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 I'm still nsane :rolleyes:So are we :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiz4rd Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Congratz nsane :showoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 The firewall will (attempt) to stop any DDoS, but in practice we know it won't be able to stand up against a large enough DDoS ;) It's a nice suggestion, but I'm happy with the system the way it's coded now, maybe it's something we'll take into account later (when we rewrite the code again). Oh, i thought you didn't have a firewall... how silly of me. Well if you already have a firewall, no need to write custom scripts secure the site. It's safe already :) Thanks to you guys for all your hard work in maintaining this site. I'd be lost without it, running down virus infected torrents and having to look all over for updates. The fact that this site is community driven where all members can contribute and update and new fixes can be made makes it one of the best sites on earth. Best apps are fronpaged and others are indexed in the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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