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Anything related to TVF’s forum (updates, downtime, etc.)
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
Reminder about Malwarebytes Active Protection
Apr 9th
If you are using malwarebytes active protection (only in the the paid / cracked version, not the free version) then I believe it will block Theviperfiles.com. You will have to add an exception or label the block as a “false positive.”
If you need help on the issue you can reply here but it’s pretty straight forward.
If any other antiviruses block our site feel free to post them here as well.
Just a reminder guys.. Just took a backup by the way.. Have a good weekend!!!
Mrf
Apr 20th
So right now I’ve got the server up and running with cPanel on it. The problem is, there’s not much I can do.
Yes, I have backups from last week, but I REALLY need the latest backups from our old datacenter, and those f*ckers haven’t replied to me in several days. Tomorrow I’m going to be calling them during my lunch break at work or something. Beg to them to let me access the files…
Anyways, I’m down to $260 in my personal bank account, seeing as how I had to spend over $400 of my personal savings to pay for the server’s cPanel license. Also, I have to go buy new pants tomorrow between my classes, since all of my jeans (all four of them) have holes in the crotch.
Anywho, here’s my to-do list for the next couple of days:
-Beg from Burst (our old datacenter)
-Get backups
-Restore TVF
-Restore TVF SQL Database
-Restore all other sites
-Restore email accounts on server
-Tweak /etc/my.cnf file for new server.
-Tweak /etc/csf/csf.*
-Sleep
-Eat
-Get paid
-Work 40+ hours/week
-Get paid just above minimum wage
-Be abused by customers
-Be abused by PMS’ing (no offense to women) bosses
-Get oil change
-Buy pants
-Buy work shirts
-Email current datacenter and see about getting a 4th IP address
-Make girlfriend happy
-Get ACE to read this and Twitter before asking me stupid questions
-42.
Apr 9th
You can now follow us on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/drmacinyasha
http://twitter.com/viper3773
http://twitter.com/theviperfiles
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Ouch!
Apr 9th
Alright, so after emailing back and forth with our datacenter, they’ve narrowed down our downtime to two main causes:
1) The CPU was overheating. Yup, even after three new hardware sets, the CPU kept overheating, and now there’s a new heatsink and cooling fan on it.
2) We were running out of swap space. My guess? MySQL was over-doing it. So now I have to figure out how to optimize the server’s memory usage and possibly get more RAM for it. Owwies!
Aaaand I’m going to be yelling at ACE to fix the Ads on here and I’m probably going to have to change the ads on the forum back to AdBrite since AdSense isn’t working right.
Staff Changes
Mar 22nd
Alright, so we have a couple of changes in our staff!
- ACE and Mr Happy are now our two new Super Moderators, meaning they have quite a few admin powers and can help out a lot more with things like banning malware/phishing posters, keeping the forum up, etc.
- Joephus and Rich'd 1337 have both unfortunately been demoted. Let's thank them both for their months of appreciated hard work being moderators on TVF!
- We're looking for new Moderators. This doesn't mean you should PM or beg anyone to be a moderator. Just be an active, friendly member of the community, help with Requests and Help Desk submissions, etc. and we'll notice you, don't worry! Though if you do go and beg to be a staff member, odds are you just blew any chance you had of becoming a moderator. I can't stress this enough!
On a side note, we've been having issues with PayPal lately (they didn't like our old XXX section and have been limiting our accounts, and I'm trying to fight them off) so if you'd like to donate and sign up for VIP status, send me a PM and I'll let you know what options we have right now. Hopefully we'll get PayPal straightened out or find a very nice work-around of some sort, more details soon!
Site’s down
Mar 22nd
Well as you can see the site is down. To be honest I’m not sure why but I’m sent a message to Dr Mac’s phone informing him of the problem so hopefully it will be sorted soon enough.
This is just to let you know we’re aware of the problem and working on it.
Yes!
Mar 20th
Sorry for the downtime folks.
I gave the server a reboot and we are back in busniess. Site might be running a little slow for a bit. Please bare with us. Hope we dont run in to any other problems for the rest of the night.
Enjoy the forum eveyone
