Created on Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:17 am with 44 blog posts
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I finally changed the ranks Addicted Frihoster and Frihost Freak to Frihost Sage and Elite Frihoster (7500 posts). Those were the most popular ones in the poll. My apologies for the delay. Ghost Rider103 also got his a unique rank; Ghost of Frihost.
I also changed the number of posts required for a certain rank, essentially a bit more for every rank. What do you think about this?
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New member 0
Frihost wannabe 50
Junior Frihoster 100
Adolescent Frihoster 200
Frihoster 400
Senior Frihoster 1000
Frihost Sage 3000
Elite Frihoster 7500
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Thanks goes to Ghost Rider103 for creating the new ranks and rvec for the poll. And for everyone else participating in the discussions about it, of course. Both our servers will be transferred to a different Savvis datacenter next Wednesday, 7 October at 12AM CST. The physical move is supposed to take about 90 minutes (downtime) and is not avoidable since they are moving everything. Unfortunately, they are also going to change the ip addresses.
Users of VPS 1 are unaffected.
For the others, there will be some downtime, hopefully not much; only 90 minutes or less. The people who pointed their domains directly to our ip addresses, will have to change it after the move, the others don't have to do anything.
EDIT: The move was done a lot earlier than planned. Here are the new ips:
The new ip of Server 4 is 72.232.207.138. The new ip of Server 2/3 is 72.232.207.74.
Since yesterday (26 august), Server 3 has been under a DDOS attack. Since Server 2 accounts are hosted on Server 3, this affects all frih.net and frih.org accounts.
Please don't worry about the websites, the server is completely intact, the problem is a DDOS, meaning all the bandwidth is maliciously (or due to some mistake, but not likely) being maxed out, causing the server to not respond anymore and also disrupt the network of the datacenter.
Anyway, the main server ip was nullrouted (which seems to be the target of the DDOS). Since the frihost.com is on a slightly different ip address, I guess it started working again after the nullrouting. (All the traffic to the main server ip is discarded, which includes the DDOS traffic, but also all websites except frihost.com)
The websites should be accessible tomorrow since the nullrouting is for 24 hours, so I guess around 12 am GMT (rough guess), it should hopefully be normal again.
@Aredon, we already had a few DDOS attacks (at least claimed by the datacenter/techs). However this time the ip was nullrouted, which never happened before.
My apologies for all these problems.
By the way, you can still access your DirectAdmin from one of the other ip addresses of the server, like http://64.92.163.27:2222/ . From now on all new accounts will be created on Server 4 with subdomain something.frihost.org. The server is actually the old Server 2, but to avoid confusion with Server 2 accounts, it is called Server 4.
For the record, we have 2 dedicated servers and 1 VPS for Frihost:
VPS 1 with cPanel and frihost.net domain
Server 3 with DA and frih.org domain (also hosts Server 2 accounts with frih.net domain)
Server 4 with DA and frihost.org domain
As each year, I'm very happy to announce that Frihost is one year older. Today is the 4th birthday of Frihost!
I'm hoping to make quite some changes to Frihost during the next year, like a new layout.
Server 4 (frihost.org, DirectAdmin) will also be opened for new requests shortly. It is the old Server 2, but since there are still Server 2 accounts (which might get their own server or vps), it will be called Server 4.
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