Yep, Big Outage There

[Ottoklein]

Hi Folks,

Well, yea, this has been a serious outage. I understand how inconvenient it has been for our regular visitors. So, on behalf of our hosting provider, I apologize.

Starting Friday morning last, they blocked access to quicksandfans due to excessive traffic. I started calling them on Saturday and have spent roughly an hour each day on the phone with them since then.

Along the way, I brought in a third party firewall (which will definitely help down the road).

I can't promise that there won't be more downtime in the near future. Even as I type this, SSL is not working, so they are still making changes.

If there are any lingering issues tomorrow morning, I will be on the phone with them once again.

Dave

Seems to work just fine in my end

[SPACEMARINE394]

I was a little nervous for a while. I thought maybe the site was gone

[stevensh12]

i am so happy everything is working again
thanks for all that has been done to keep the site going strong

[redjak6t4]

I'd like to add my thanks and relief at the return of this fine forum.

On a personal note I'd also like to thank Fred588, whom I e-mailed to find out why QSF had vanished.

He was able to supply some info and that news was very welcome.

Redjak.

[dlodoski]

You may want to consider following the main MPV Twitter feed. https://twitter.com/MPVisuals

Multiple messages went out regarding QSF, such as this one - https://twitter.com/MPVisuals/status/15 ... 2464594947

Notification on this episode was tricky, because no part of the site was visible. I would have enjoyed putting up some sort of special index page, but there was no point.

[sixgunzloaded]

Echoing what others have said. Thank you for all you do, Dave. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say you're the backbone of this community.
I'm glad you were able to actually talk to a human on the phone about it. So many times nowadays, that's not an option anymore.

[redjak6t4]

Ok, thanks Dave.

Actually, I tried to get in touch with you here.

https://allmylinks.com/feed

Where you've got 14 links to the various sites you run.

But, that's not a problem now that everything's been resolved.

Thanks again,

Redjak.

[dlodoski]

Ok, thanks Dave.

Actually, I tried to get in touch with you here.

https://allmylinks.com/feed ...

I didn't realize that there was a messaging function there. (Sorry!) In my mind, it was a 'one and done' deal that just needs updating once in a while. I will see if there's a way to set up notifications for incoming messages.

https://allmylinks.com/dlodoski

[Edit] I just now discovered that I had never verified my email address. I should get notifications now, regarding any future messages.

[Theo]

Glad to see QSF is back up! For me, I think it was down starting on or about the 25th, so after a almost a week I was beginning to worry we'd been "cancelled"

The "excessive traffic" issue makes sense I guess, as I see the "Most users ever online" has been reset to 325 on Sat Jun 11, 2022 8:43 pm. Before it was 234 on Tue Aug 29, 2017. Makes me wonder what caused the sudden influx of traffic?