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Reminder :: TVF & AV’s
Aug 28th
Sometimes if you can’t access TVF and you can access any other website, you might think; oh TVF is down. But that might not be the case.
Some antiviruses, including malwarebytes active protection (paid/cracked version, free one is just scanned) block access to TVF.
To troubleshoot try disabling, adding a whitelist to theviperfiles.com (94.228.219.195), or just uninstalling that AV and getting something else (eset smart security is pretty nice).
Just thought I would let everyone know, because I have helped a few people in the past who couldn’t access TVF and their AV was to blame. 
Network Failure
Jul 15th
Edit: Netrouting have still about 4 gigabit of incoming DDOS traffic. We’re doing all we can to keep the connection as stable as possible, we’re working together with our carriers to find a more stable solution.
Errors today — w/ Edit
May 16th
I was away this weekend for my cousin, who is one of my best friends, graduation party.. I was still on the forum to respond to PM’s and fix VIP accounts though 
This morning after I got home I got an email from our datacenter.. Here it is:
Today I had received an SMS about your server. It was offline so I tried to reboot but I saw many errors during the boot. I saw your filesystem was corrupt but not all only the files for Linux. This is very strange because other clients have no problems with this. I have taken your files in de public_html directory and your database. And I have installed a new VPS with cPanel. I have restored the backups but there are problems with your forum software. Maybe you can look into this?
So after that I tried to fix it, but didn’t have enough time b/c I had to leave for my soccer game (lol soccer when super exhausted from partying sucks) .. But after I got home I reuploaded a few ‘corrupted’ files, updated the DB info, fixed permissions, double checked stuff, installed stuff, and wallah we are back online
Thanks for the patience today guys and I apologize.. This wasn’t really anyones fault I am not sure 100% what happened. But good thing for backups the DB was taken by the provider right when the vps went down so nothing was lost.. Good thing I had the file backup from Friday morning b/c that helped a lot in getting things back and running
Cheers everyone!
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And right as I was about to post this on the forum and hit the hay for the night what do you know? IPS Driver error when posting this and trying to view any post. The biggest table (HUGE..), the posts table had crashed for some reason.
I tried the standard repair but 3 hours later and no go I figured that just wasn’t in the works for working.
I googled some random sh*t since I saw that the TMP directories were 100% full.. Limiting the repair since the table was so big.. I switched the TMP directory to a directory that wasn’t a partition, just on the standard drive on the vps.. Tried the repair again And about 5-10 minutes later the repair was successful!
Sweet deal right? I am sorry for the downtime guys I really am there wasn’t a whole lot I could do though :/ .. Remember everyone to check the BLOG and my TWITTER for information regarding downtime..
Thanks for the support everyone. — Viper3773 & Staff
VIPs, White Screen problem, etc.
May 13th
Forgot one set of code for each skin except the reloaded
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5 characters screwed everything up 
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all fixed now!!!
Friday
May 7th
Well its Friday morning, and that means backup time! I am currently RIGHT now taking the backup.. Will be done quite soon here.
It’s always easier to have a good weekend knowing that TVF is in a good online + protected state
Have a good weekend everybody, don’t party too hard
Weekend
Apr 30th
This morning I took a backup so we are good for the weekend. I think it will be standard now to take a backup every friday morning right before the weekend.
I rebooted the server as well so that should be good as well.
I hope everyone has a good weekend as I plan on having a great one myself — Regards!
Update
Apr 23rd
Well we were up all late-night, and all day day today, So that is a plus.
The server should be faster since we have double the memory we had before. 
So let’s hope this works out.
Also, please become a follower of @viper3773 on twitter! You can read my tweets in the right side of the blog, there is a plugin that will display them.. It is much easier for me to send out a quick tweet than a blog post. Also I can update the twitter anywhere via my mobile phone and a text to the twitter service. Thanks
On twitter just small stuff are tweeted about. Major stuff will always be on the blog.
Random downtime – Update
Apr 21st
The datacenter and I have been working on this issue today, and we are trying something, and we are hoping that it helps ..
If it doesn’t we have some other ideas on going about fixing it.
(crosses fingers) hope it works then
New Blog Theme
Apr 9th
I added a nice new clean blog theme. In this theme there is a “Twitter” box to the left with my twitter username in it reading my tweets.. I kind of like it
