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ca Offline Grant Lamontagne

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What the heck was that?
on: July 24, 2024, 05:37:23 PM
First off, welcome back to the only forum that matters, we apologize profusely for the outage and any inconvenience it may have caused any of you.

I won't bore you all with the details, largely because I am too stupid to know them all, and I'd hate for the smart guys out there to correct me and make me look even dumber than I am.

In short, we were supposed to have a seamless change to a newer, faster, better server, with no noticeable downtime whatsoever.

Unfortunately, on our way to the new server we encountered the perfect storm of emails not being forwarded, email accounts that no longer exist and heightened security measures due to the folks at GoDaddy figuring somehow that we are a high value site- so high value that they wouldn't even let us access it.   :facepalm:

Micah has it all sorted out now- he was up all night wrestling with it and trying to get Multitool.org, SAKWiki and so on all sorted out for all of us.  Once again, we owe that man a HUGE debt of gratitude, so please take a moment out of your day to let him know how much you appreciate him.  I'm not just saying this because he's my oldest and best friend, I mean he actually does deserve everything we can give him.  It's no exaggeration to say that this site would have ended many times over the years if it weren't for his fanatical devotion to keeping us running.

That having been said, we are back and things all appear to be running now.  Please be sure to post any issues you see and we will see what we can do to get them sorted out as time permits.

In the meantime, WE ARE BACK!!!

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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #1 on: July 24, 2024, 05:49:30 PM
 :like: :iagree:

It was so bad that you and I became friends on FB (lest it be unrecoverable  :ahhh)

An absolute full on fist bump to Micah for sorting out this load of...excrement  :salute:

Hero doesn't suffice  :dd:

Now, if you could just restore every single badge/award there is available that would be great  :2tu:

I had them awl (honest  :whistle:)
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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #2 on: July 24, 2024, 06:01:11 PM
I was wondering if there was a round 2 of the cloud strike outage. Certainly MTO is a high value target for hackers. 

Thanks to Micah for getting us back up and running!   :cheers:


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #3 on: July 24, 2024, 06:08:37 PM
That sounds like a lot of things going bump in the night. Great work getting it going again!  :tu:
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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #4 on: July 24, 2024, 06:23:55 PM
That sounds like a lot of things going bump in the night. Great work getting it going again!  :tu:

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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #5 on: July 24, 2024, 06:37:38 PM
 :MTO: Thanks, Micah!  :MTO:


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #6 on: July 24, 2024, 07:51:09 PM
Thanks Micah!

I was starting to suffer from MT.o withdrawal…


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #7 on: July 24, 2024, 07:57:13 PM
Thanks Micah!

I was starting to suffer from MT.o withdrawal…

You too huh?   :ahhh

Def
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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #8 on: July 24, 2024, 08:44:16 PM
Well I hope Micah was able to reach Danica Patrick directly to get this straightened out


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #9 on: July 24, 2024, 09:02:26 PM
Fantastic work on this issue, Micah! :hatsoff: :drink:
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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #10 on: July 24, 2024, 09:07:10 PM
💜:like:  SHOUTOUT MICAH!!!  :like:💜


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #11 on: July 25, 2024, 01:24:42 AM
Glad to see :MTO: back again!; do NOT ever do that again!!! Too many hours without you people, the ONLY worldwide community that I feel so close to home. Shoutout to Micah, Def, and to those who help around in keeping it alive.  :clap: :clap: :clap:


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #12 on: July 25, 2024, 01:41:25 AM
It was definitely unpleasant for all of us, and not something we are looking to do again soon!   :ahhh

But with the new server and some unknown issues with GoDaddy sorted out, we hopefully won't have to worry about it again, at least for a little while!

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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #13 on: July 25, 2024, 02:41:32 AM
The cold sweats, the blurred vision and shaking all over.  It was awful.  Just awful.  Thanks Micah!


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #14 on: July 25, 2024, 03:07:01 AM
Many thanks Micah !  :salute: :salute: :salute:

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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #15 on: July 25, 2024, 05:36:05 PM
Thanks for all your efforts Micah!  From one IT nerd to another...




I too was suffering from withdrawals.  I was staring at my monitor thinking... "now what do I do... what other cool site is there to visit...?"
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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #17 on: July 27, 2024, 06:32:36 AM
Thanks to Micah for getting the best internet forum back.

I don’t know if it is related but will the forum become available on TapaTalk again?


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #18 on: July 27, 2024, 09:26:30 AM
I don’t know if it is related but will the forum become available on TapaTalk again?

Not related. See Tapatalk down and Tapatalk not working.


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Re: What the heck was that?
Reply #19 on: July 28, 2024, 06:17:42 AM


 

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