Forum is back online? - IDN Forums

123 · #1 (**permalink**) 24th March 2019, 02:51 PM

bwhhisc · #2 (**permalink**) 24th March 2019, 06:35 PM

Yes, there was a glitch at Silicon Valley Web Hosting (svwh.net) who hosts the site.
Once we contacted them, they had us back up in 10 minutes.

Speaking of hosting....the cost is $149 a month and any donations are appreciated by joining as a premium member

Best to all,

Bill

123 · #3 (**permalink**) 24th March 2019, 08:14 PM

couldn't the forum run on a VPS? It's not a high traffic site I guess...

seesawgame · #4 (**permalink**) 25th March 2019, 03:09 AM

Forums takes DDOS attacked? so changed to VPS?
I have the same problem but I used cloudflare.com to fix DDOS attack problem.

bwhhisc · #5 (**permalink**) 25th March 2019, 05:50 PM

It was not a DDOS attack, just a failure on the hard drive at svwh.net; that being said we are supposed to have mirrored hard drives and real time backup so site (supposedly) should never go down. Nice think is their engineers are there live 24/7 and you can call them on the phone anytime for support. Open to any suggestions for hosting that is safe and secure that can be passed along to forum staff.

basel · #6 (**permalink**) 5th April 2019, 07:55 AM

its take me 3 days to find bwhhisc contact address and let him know that website down
no need to thanks bill :P but website down more than 11 days :S

i just purchased premium membership to support the fees of idnf hosting