WTF Happened?! A Tale of Extended Downtime

Alright back up! For those that hadn't guessed already UtaForum suffered some extended downtime.

This downtime was caused by the MySQL database that powers this site horribly corrupting after a server crash while the forum was in the middle of a critical read/write operation. The crash was caused by another website on our server node being DDOSed, overloading my server's memory, taking everyone hosted there down with it, UtaForum and many other sites I host included.

With our main database corrupted I have spent the last couple days recovering what I could from our backups. I was able to save the users table and its associated data, the forum structure, the threads, PMS, and even the polls but sadly 'mybb_posts' was the one table I wasn't able to recover.

I will try to see what I can do, but after having spent the last 5 days doing what I can I am not sure what else I can recover. I have even older backups, backups from early April but I am not sure how much good that will do us.

For now UtaForum is tentatively back with myBB but as a shadow of its former self. Myst, the staff, and myself have much to discuss about where we want to go from here. We hope to have an announcement soon. Please check back later.
 

MystSaphyr

Procrastinator Extraordinaire
Administrator
Defender of Defoko
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(If it hasn't been obvious so far one of our useful plugins, spambot protection, is now missing. This might prove to be difficult.)
 

samth1815

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
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To be honest, stuff may be glitching here and there and the site looks totally different, but I'm just glad you guys got stuff up and running again.

Thank you!

If there's anything I can do to help let me know, although there probably isn't hah


MystSaphyr said:
(If it hasn't been obvious so far one of our useful plugins, spambot protection, is now missing. This might prove to be difficult.)

Oh gosh.

Hoping we don't get a massive wave of spambots while stuff is down.
 

Xuu

Ask me about Synthesizer V
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
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Quick! Nuke the spambots! Nuke the spambots!
Where do I make threads for UTAU releases again? o3o
 

na4a4a

Outwardly Opinionated and Harshly Critical
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
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I always thought you could upload the databases to a directory and point to it rather than "importing" it directly...but that's just some nonsense coming from a person without understanding


I thought that you could upload the databases to a directory and then move it or point to it from there...web code is like alien tech to me...
Couldn't you also split the database up and then load the table first?

mmm...spam...

edit: I said I would donate an organ for you guys...I take it back...
You guys would probably prefer something more useful...
 

Olivia

Tutor
Tutor
Defender of Defoko
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Oh dear. :sad: This is very unfortunate.
Well, nonetheless, thank you very much for doing so much for the forum and recovering such a great portion of it. It would have been devastating to lose the whole UTAforum.
Although recent threads and posts may be out of reach, I am very grateful that not all has been lost. It is great that there is a backup from April along with the older Forumotion and Zetaboards forums.

Thank you very much for all the work you have put into getting this forum back, Hentai.
 

amaterasu miya

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
hmmm
i doubt there may be, BUT, is there anything i could do to help? i would happily help if i can, because i find UTAforum so useful, and i would love to repay all the staff for putting together such a helpful forum :3
 

shinami

Procrastination Queen
Tutor
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
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Oh, wow, dang. Late to the party since yesterday Tutors were let back in. This is DEFINETLY not what I thought was going on, thught that Hentai was implementing the changes he had thought about back in the Staff Room a while ago.

This is majorly unfortunate, and I'll be happy if anything is salvaged, as anything is better than nothing. But don't overwork yourself on it, you're the true amazing force behind Utaforum, Hentai! I hope it all goes well!
 

Olivia

Tutor
Tutor
Defender of Defoko
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shinami said:
Oh, wow, dang. Late to the party since yesterday Tutors were let back in. This is DEFINETLY not what I thought was going on, thught that Hentai was implementing the changes he had thought about back in the Staff Room a while ago.

This is majorly unfortunate, and I'll be happy if anything is salvaged, as anything is better than nothing. But don't overwork yourself on it, you're the true amazing force behind Utaforum, Hentai! I hope it all goes well!
Oh how strange, you were locked out of the forum? I read the other thread, it said that all Tutors had been locked out and were not listed as registered users. That is very strange, as none of this happened to me and I am a Tutor as well. (At least last time I checked, eek!) Very weird. Ah, nonetheless, I am very glad you are back, welcome back to the forum!

I hope things turn out okay guys, and I agree, don't overwork yourself Hentai ;u;
The best of luck
 

MystSaphyr

Procrastinator Extraordinaire
Administrator
Defender of Defoko
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That's because Tutors were a custom usergroup I made, and I think permissions got reset for custom groups when we brought the forum back. Sorry..!
 

Zoku

making doper vocaloid music than the rest
Defender of Defoko
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I'm sad that all of this has happened. Even though I don't log on too much, I find all of,this very unfortunate...