Merry Xmas 2008 / Hope there's a 2009!

[Grunaki]

Not that I'm anything to do with Atari Legend itself, just thought I would kick off the Christmas greetz thread..

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2008!

(And hopefully the site's back on-line in 2009..)

[StickHead]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Grunaki]

ATARI LEGEND! WHERE ARE YOOOOOOooooooooouuuuu?????

[Mug UK]

It's still being worked on - site is down due to investigations by the hosting company. About what I've no idea as of yet.

[RetroGamerUK]

It's still being worked on - site is down due to investigations by the hosting company. About what I've no idea as of yet.

No way....

[Grunaki]

What are they trying to figure out?

If it's the same site?

Of course it's not.

One site is about oily, sweaty people manhandling one another and the other is about Greek Wrestling.

[Mug UK]

I don't really get all this web-hosting malarky, but apparently someone - or a group of 'leet web haxors' (yawn!) - have taken it upon themselves to consistently try to break into AL and/or do denial of service attacks on it. Why they're doing this, I've no idea!

We're trying to work out a solution with the bloke who hosts the site (Mark Durban) as it's causing him problems as well as the hosting company he uses. His hosting company have lost clients due to the outage too so they want to upgrade Mark's service to handle all these attacks and that'll cost him an extra £200 a month!

So the site will be down for a while whilst all this is worked out. Silver Surfer is looking into the hosting side of things and I've got a mate on the case as well so hopefully some good news soon.

We're still looking for a good PHP coder who can help us link up with AtariMania when they're live but, for the time being, AL is offline.

We were going to announce Marcer's DVD on AL, along with the news about Brume's new baby but we couldn't. Ah well, c'est la vie.

[Desty]

I don't really get all this web-hosting malarky, but apparently someone - or a group of 'leet web haxors' (yawn!) - have taken it upon themselves to consistently try to break into AL and/or do denial of service attacks on it. Why they're doing this, I've no idea!

Oh, you mean 13 year old pubescent lonely angsty script kiddies? Poor bastards.

Has Mark collected the IPs of the wannabe-hackers and contacted their ISPs? Unless they're smarter than they appear, there's a good chance that they're attacking directly rather than through some IRC-controlled trojans on other victims' machines.

[Mug UK]

Apparently he's still waiting for that information .. until it turns up we are kind of in limbo. Pointless resurrecting the site elsewhere if the same script kiddies are going to keep attacking the site wherever it's hosted.

A mate of mine who hosts my site has - potentially - agreed to help out but can't do much at present as he's currently en route to France for a skiing holiday Plus he wants to take a look at the PHP code to see what he can add to it to bolster the defences etc.

I'd rather wait until it's all sorted, patched and defended properly than just rush it out but I'm leaving all those decisions to Silver Surfer as it's not my decision.

Although a "kind offer" was received from someone else but, regretfully, we've had to turn it down. Mainly because the domain name started with 'see you next Tuesday' ... so that kind of gives you a massive hint who was offering up this spare hosting

[Grunaki]

Although a "kind offer" was received from someone else but, regretfully, we've had to turn it down. Mainly because the domain name started with 'see you next Tuesday' ... so that kind of gives you a massive hint who was offering up this spare hosting

The Krays?
(See you next Tuesday and we'll nail you head to a coffee table... )

So any more updates as to what's going on?