M6 forum - so what IS wrong???

[hypersonic]

Hi All,
I've just recently registered to this new forum, & i DO see that there is a thread already covering the M6 problem.
However it is nearly 250 replies long now & 13 Pages!!!
Seeing as it would be like finding a needle in a haystack, amongst all the jokey quips that are making up the majority of the posts there, to find the 'reasons', for the outage..

I thought it best to ask a-fresh what the problem is, so that the Answers are on page 1 of a thread for all to see...
I'm assuming that since this has been going on since at least February, that there ARE some answers???

Put simply, What HAS happenned to the M6 forum?
Is who's responsible for maintaining/ running it aware of the problem? (I assume we KNOW who is responsible for it?)
And are they trying to/ going to fix it?

Many thanks,
Hyper

 

[simonpro]

Hi All,
Put simply, What HAS happenned to the M6 forum?
Is who's responsible for maintaining/ running it aware of the problem? (I assume we KNOW who is responsible for it?)
And are they trying to/ going to fix it?

1) The forum database seems to have been deleted, making the forum software resort to it's startup mode of configuration.
2) Yes.
3) It is only possible to fix if the hosting company made a database backup. They should have done this, but so far we havn't got an answer out of them. If there is no backup then the orbiter forum is gone meaning all posts are unrecoverable. If this is the case then it probably wont be back again.

 

[hypersonic]

Many thanks for the reply.

 

[chris]

1) The forum database seems to have been deleted, making the forum software resort to it's startup mode of configuration.

And someone in the other thread suggested a hacker who was recently banned from the orbiter forum may be the person that deleted the database.

 

[doggie015]

And someone in the other thread suggested a hacker who was recently banned from the orbiter forum may be the person that deleted the database.

Understandable, the Hacker thought "If I can't access the M6 forum, no one can" and deleted the database, understandable enough

 

[MJR]

Too bad, because we have this one.

 

[adamb193]

Silly hackers don't they know orbinauts have triple redundancy in all out systems?

 

[Tex]

Hey guys, I'm closing this thread so we can keep all discussions about M6 forum in 1 thread here:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=831
:speakcool:

Thanks hypersonic, you brought up a good point about the thread being so large it was hard to get the answers why it was down so I posted an announcement that will hopefully help. Members may now point any future members who ask about the forum to this announcement:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/announcement.php?f=2&a=3

Thanks guys.