(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Now I get it - one or two people inserted a wikka URL in the Anon box (see James C's captured image above), and that is sufficient for the wikka to experience page visits by the thousands. Talk about loose cannon (literally).

Now, don't be so naughty and try it. (I guess you won't, 'coz you won't know what happens to your browser if you visit that site. And I delete the URL now.)

Back to normal at the wikka (hopefully!).

The web hosting account of puppylinux.org was suspended just an hour ago. It looks like there is a suspiciously large number of hits at the wikka. Am working on the problem and hopefully will get netfirm's cooperation.

Update: 2012-04-12 17:00 GMT - After my initial support chat, ticket was marked "resolved" even if the suspended status of the site remained. The second chat resulted to a second promise to resolve the problem. We will see, but I sleep now (1 AM here).

2012-04-12 22:30 GMT - site is OK but the wikka is read-only while being checked for malicious access. [Later] The wikka has resumed normal operation. Thanks for your patience.

The new website design is nice but lacks some easily-accessible screenshots for the new-comers to gaze at to get some nice first (pre-)impression.

Was just advised by the host that the wiki was experiencing unusually high activity.

It is inaccessible for now, but I will try to get it back up in 12 hours.

FYI, thanks.

raffy wrote:Was just advised by the host that the wiki was experiencing unusually high activity.

One of their folks came to the IRC channel wondering if someone from your website was online.

I just got back from visiting Puppylinux.org and when I clicked on the Wiki link at the top of the page, I got an error 404 page of file not found.
Does that mean the wiki pages are currently un-accessible?
I remember the last time the site was hacked and a lot of good information was lost!

8-bit wrote:I remember the last time the site was hacked and a lot of good information was lost!

That was the wiki running in a CMS, and it happened in 2009. We have reverted to wikka wiki since. As to that database, it has been recovered and made available for download by interested forum members (for a limited time, that is).

The wikka wiki is back as of July 2, 2013 1650H UTC.

I empathise with you, raffy...as someone recently commented (01micko..?), it's a jungle out there! As hard as we try to keep our sites secure, there are many whose mission in life seems to be hacking, vandalising, phishing/stealing and who-knows-what-other feral crap

Tar and feathers sounds good to me....if only we could lay paws on those responsible..