In the last couple days the FAOL website has been under attack from nefarious third parties.
They do this to gain access to the server to put up phony pages, send email, or spam our members.
The result is they drive the system load up 100 times normal, and things get painfully slow as they attempt to break in.
I don’t think I need to tell you what I think of these tactics.
To help combat these threats I have put in some custom controls, and for the long term will be looking at taking the system down for a day sometime in the next couple weeks.
I will at that time reformat the system, with a newer distribution (ours was getting too old anyway), and reload with updated anti “@!(#*$” tools. (fill in the cursing with your favorite… it fits)
Neil and Dee will be giving me a window to do annual system maintenance soon.
Thank you for your patience.
Side note: I’ve banned several sources in the last 20 min. And it’s automated to block them as they come in now.
That must be why that after bragging on the new menu page on the homepage it went away and now I have to do a search for flyanglersonline on google and then open the BB from there. I will continue to do this and trust me, there is no complaining from me. I do not envy you with the work you have to do to keep this great site up and running.
Thanks for letting us know. This is such a fantastic site and it is a shame a bunch of idiots with nothing better to do would put people like you to extra work so they can be cute. Thanks for everything yall do and take your time. Greatest ff site ever. mathcarver
what browser are you using Warren? I updated the main page again, and tested in the browsers I have, but if it isn’t showing up for you, I need to look again.
I am using Internet Explorer. I have the FAOL homepage bookmarked in my “favorites” and when I click on it, it brings up the homepage with everything there except the left hand side where the new menu was. The left side is blank and top left has the “sponsor” logo and under that there is a black rectangle with the word “search” in it.
I can go to “Google” and do a search for flyanglersonline.com and then click on bb flyanglersonline.com and that will get me here on the bb. I am going to try opening flyanglersonline.com from the search and see what happens when I try to log on to see if that changes things.
I am also on Internet Explorer and have the same situation as Warren. When I go to the Home Page from the BB, there is no menu. I’ve got the BB as a favorite so no problem getting here - except it is really slow and sometimes I can’t access the BB even after several tries. If I wait a while, in terms of minutes, I can usually get on the BB, although getting everything loaded takes some time. Navigating from Forum to Forum is also really slow at times.
If you are seeing the old page version you may have it cached. Go to Internet Options and delete history. Sometimes, depending on version you can do this by pressing the F5 key…
I am using Interne Explorer, with FAOL book marked in my favorites list. I click on it and it brings up FAOL home page in perfect form. just fyi for the troubleshooters
This morning it is back to the beautiful homepage with the new menu! Thank you so much for all your hard work. Everything is working perfectly and fast plus the new menu is back!