[rocksmyfaceoff.info]

Okay, I’m not paying for two servers for a third month … so I have to get it done by tomorrow. Apologies in advance for any downtime, which I will seek to minimize.

Working to fix the problem now.

Something slowed up the pace of backups last night [best as I can tell, a variety of HTTP pingfloods from script kiddies], so the backups are still progressing during normal traffic, which causes slowness. Sorry, not really anything I can do about it other than cancel the backups, which I think you’d agree is bad.

We’ll be on the newer box soon.

So, you know, there’s downtime and stuff. Come on, it’s Saturday night. Go bowling or something.

• Nope, it’s DNS problems. Gah. I hate DNS. #

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Not sure what’s going on, but I lost connectivity to the server. I’ve done a reboot request, which failed, so the NOC is investigating. Thanks for your patience, and I apologize for the downtime.

Nope, it was DNS issues. The Planet brought a new system on last night, and things are wonky with it. It’ll be a while before new data propogates, I reckon.

We had a power failure with the server about 0330 CDT this morning, but we were back online by 0415. I was safely in the arms of Morpheus and the mask of my CPAP for a sleep study, so I didn’t take the call … but all is well.

All:

We had an intruder log in via SSH from Eastern Europe yesterday on one of the accounts, for the express purpose of inserting some extraneous JavaScript at the end of every index.php file on that account. I feel quite confident that this account was the only one affected by the intruder, as this is the only record of that IP address on the server and I have seen no other unusual activity. That said, you are encouraged to change your cPanel/FTP passwords on a regular basis and to make them difficult to guess. cPanel now has a function that helps evaluate the strength of passwords, and I have a simple technique for generating difficult-to-guess passwords.

Thanks for your attention. Please email me if you have concerns.

The MySQL server is showing some flukiness, so I’ve restarted it. This should explain any errors you’ve seen in the last few minutes.

[177 days of uptime on the server. Impressive.]

I think the title is self-explanatory; nothing is demonstrably wrong with the box. Am investigating.

1729 CDT: The issue is limited to rocksmyfaceoff.net, not www.rocksmyfaceoff.net. Very strange.

1924 CDT: It has apparently re-resolved. :shrug: