Site Outage

[TB]

The site went down around 3 AM this morning. It appears that the MySql service completely quit on us. I re-installed the service and the site is functional again. We also took advantage of the outage to apply patches, which because IPB doesn't decouple urgent patches from theme updates, has altered and broken some visual features. We will be repairing those over the next few days and there may be intermittent outages as we do.

 

Edit: It appears that our VPS administration software decided to attempt an update at 11:00PM last night with a reboot around 3AM. The update went sideways and corrupted the MySQL service. A re-install of the service fixed the issue and all data appears to be in-tact.

[Im_CIA]

maybe someone put (colon) drop all tables (colon) in their signature

[TB]

On 6/23/2021 at 12:25 PM, Im_CIA said:

maybe someone put (colon) drop all tables (colon) in their signature

It doesn't appear that it was an injection attack, the entire service was just non-operational. I think it had something to do with caching, but I'm still investigating. I will need to dig deeper after work.

[Generic-User]

In any event, thanks for keeping us in the loop.

[Swamp]

On 6/23/2021 at 1:18 PM, The Britain said:

We also took advantage of the outage to apply patches

Hey, now I can condense the "Unread Content"! You have no idea how happy that makes me. Thank you.