SillyDog701 Message Centre

[Antony]

SillyDog701 server is partially down. Our front end services should not be affected. We are working on it.

We apologise for inconvenience.

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[profman]

The SillyDog E-mail seems to be not working at this time (at least for me).

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[Antony]

[Antony]

Sorry, there was a mistake at my end. You can blame me.

The server will be refreshed once the backup has been verified.
I will refresh the server later. The server will be down for a few hours during such rebuilding.

SillyDog701 Message Centre is not down.


I will post more information later.

If you need to contact me, please use http://sillydog.org/feedback.php

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[Wolfey]

Sillydog E-Mail access is still down, but the error message this time is a different one.

Earlier, the server gave a blank response, in the sense that nothing followed the colon after the "mail server responded:" line. I recall seeing that same error message the last time maintenance was being performed.

Now it's saying there's a password mismatch - unlike the previous one, I have never seen this error message before, and I didn't change anything

Just wanted to mention this in case anyone else was trying to check their Sillydog E-Mail accounts lately.

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[Antony]

Thanks for reporting.

I feel very bad about what happened. It was actually my fault that resulted this server downtime. It was a wrong click in back-end control panel that caused this.

When I first announce the "partially down", the website still appear to be functioning well, but a number of scripts were not. In order to make things easier for server backup, postings to SillyDog701 Message Centre was temporary disabled.

After the upgrading of the operating system, there were some issues that delays website restoring. The main reason was that we choose FreeBSD as oppose to the popular Linux. Some adjustments were required.

The reason we prefer FreeBSD over Linux is FreeBSD is reported to be more reliable than Linux, based Netcraft's survey. Our good friend's website, ufaq.org, also runs on FreeBSD.

This whole issue was my fault. I do take responsibilities, in other words, I am the one to blame. Unlike some certain individual who blamed and threatened SillyDog701/Antony for his inability to secure his server.

Update to this downtime:
SillyDog701 website is back. All public services are back except old forum is currently down.
subdomains of mozfaq.org is restored. All online. (*)
SillyDog701 server's Operating System has been updated. Back-end scripts have been updated as well.

All accounts of SillyDog701 emails and accesses are being restored. (*)

SillyDog701's secondary server (sillydog.com) is not affected during this down time.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Unexpected things (okay my fault to be exact) do happen.

(*) Public access are back. Accesses for the account holders are still being restored.

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[Antony]

After the re-installation of SillyDog701 server, we noticed the front page of Message Centre ( http://sillydog.org/forum/ ) has been slow in responding. It was due to connection time required to fetch latest related news from Google News.

We have fixed this problem.

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