Luftwaffe Archives and Records Group (LWAG) website possibly going down

[edwest]

Hello Richard,



Sorry to hear the news. Can you archive the contents? Perhaps someone here can help? I'd give Peter D. Evans at the LEMB a shout.



Good luck,
Ed

[Dan O'Connell]

That's awful news Richard. My best wishes for a solution!

[Peter D Evans]

If there is anything I can do to help Richard, by all means drop me a line...

I would add, however, that without access to where the board is hosted, updating and archiving may prove difficult. If vBulletin is anything like Invision Power Board (the board on which the LEMB is built on) then recent updates have addressed issues with spam applications etc. However, not knowing much about vBulletin, it's difficult to know what the updates since v3.6.8 (LWAG current version) and v3.7.4 (which appears to be the current version)

Come on guys... if any of you out here are able to help Richard in any way, please pipe up... keeping these boards up and running is hard and it would be a huge shame if the time and hard work put into keeping LWAG going was to disappear...

cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[Andreas Brekken]

Hi

I can help by offering a new place for LWAG to stay free of charge (have my own server now).

I haven't used vBulletin, but it seems to run based on PHP and MySQL.

I suggest the following action Richard, in order to at least secure the data contained on the site:

1. Get a manual backup of the MySQL database that hold the data contained in the system. The host service should be able to provide you with this, if you want assistance in order to communicate with them, pls let me know

2. Install vBulletin on my server along with the backup of the database.

3. Run LWAG from my server until we have fixed everything

If this is of interest pls reply here or send me a pm.

Regards,
Andreas B

[Richard T. Eger]

Dear All,

Thank you for your support. To be honest, I'm absolutely not a software expert. I have relied upon the advice of the site's software guru. I do know that the site somehow goes through his server to the server at 24hostingnow. At one point, it was suggested to me by 24hostingnow that updating the software would be a good idea, but that this should be coordinated with the site's software guru. I believe what he has done is to add special features to the basic vBulletin software, including the site's logo in the upper left corner and security features intended to ward off spammers.

After 3 successive years of attacks by the spammer, my guru has stated that he is too busy to help. I haven't been able to get a reply from him in over a month, so he may have blocked any communication from me. It is really an intolerable situation for me.

After posting my message here, I did finally get a reply from 24hostingnow, probably as a result of my going to the U.S. company they use to handle billing, 2checkout.com. At the moment, they are actively trying to fix the problems. Whether they are smart enough to do so is really up in the air, as I am also getting tired of trying to explain things to them that they are having a hard time grasping.

I haven't a clue myself as to how to store the site. I do have a repair shop that might know.

Recognize that I am a provider of information, not a software expert, and thus must rely on those that are. In essence, I drive the car, but I don't know how to repair it.

Regards,
Richard