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hammer6913

hammer6913

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tragic tanker. once u get into ur new pad ull be able to get it goin again. the move is a good oppertunity to was everything and get ready for ur next grow. good luck man..
 
Gastanker

Gastanker

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I'm just glad I haven't been up to anything. Lost a bunch of nothing for the most part. What a pain though for most everyone else. Shit happens.

I'll try to get an updated shot of the plants in the attic later today.
 
matthebrute

matthebrute

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I dont quite buy thier story. they claim that they dont backup verry often due to security reasons, they dont want the files traveling over the internet too often. sure sounds good but theres no reason they can backup the files to another server on a intranet network (a network that is only shared among the company's files and is not hooked up to the internet)

i dunno i just dont buy it

they should be doing 1 big backup every week or at least keeping a solid backup and adding anything that wasnt backed up before to it every week (less data to write)

i think i may be done with this site, the shit that has been going on lately has been a bit sketchy and now they accidently lost a months worth of data?!?!?! this is basic shit when you run a server never mind one as big as RIU.

also did any of you notice that RIU stopped advertising for the attitude seed bank and now is advertising for credit card companys? i think they are selling out!!
 
Gastanker

Gastanker

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Rollitup from what I understand doesn't control the ads - they are managed through an advertisement company and are sold to the highest bidder. The lack of backups it pretty silly if you ask me. A bunch of vbulletin sites were hacked and most didn't lose a month of info... Like you said, they could be performing on site backups which would never have info leaving the sever banks and streaming across the internet. But at the same time who cares if journal info streams over the internet? It's all public anyways... Now if they want to backup PMs separately that's fine but I can't imagine that being too much info.

Damnit. Give me back my like button.
 
matthebrute

matthebrute

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Gastanker said:
Rollitup from what I understand doesn't control the ads - they are managed through an advertisement company and are sold to the highest bidder. The lack of backups it pretty silly if you ask me. A bunch of vbulletin sites were hacked and most didn't lose a month of info... Like you said, they could be performing on site backups which would never have info leaving the sever banks and streaming across the internet. But at the same time who cares if journal info streams over the internet? It's all public anyways... Now if they want to backup PMs separately that's fine but I can't imagine that being too much info.
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shouldnt even be backing up PM's period, that kinda defeates the "personal" part of personael message.

if that data gets lost then people should just have to deal, at least thats how i feel.
 
matthebrute

matthebrute

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i would also like to add that the Attitude seed bank is not even in the "seeds" section of the website meaning not only are the adds gone but RIU has stopped endorsing them alltogether.....OR Attitude dosent want RIU endorsing them anymore. i couldnt say for sure but seems a bit strange if you ask me
 
Clonex

Clonex

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Do we really care so much for Attitude ?
Just a bunch of middle men profiting from everyone else's genetics and hard work ...
I do want the like button grrrrrr!
 
Gastanker

Gastanker

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Hmm. You're right. Maybe Attitude stopped paying lol. I guess I never hit the seeds button and for some reason I don't see any ads anymore. Not sure who turned them off for me but thanks if you're reading this. I do agree though that this sites been slowly slipping for several years. The idea of moving to another site is just so daunting.
 
Clonex

Clonex

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I looked at other sites , Grasscity etc , i just couldn't get used to the layouts
Change sucks!
 
matthebrute

matthebrute

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Gastanker said:
Hmm. You're right. Maybe Attitude stopped paying lol. I guess I never hit the seeds button and for some reason I don't see any ads anymore. Not sure who turned them off for me but thanks if you're reading this. I do agree though that this sites been slowly slipping for several years. The idea of moving to another site is just so daunting.
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im not moving to a different site, i think im going to stop journaling for a while though.
 
Gastanker

Gastanker

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Taking a break from updating a journal makes sense. I tent to journal a bit and then leave for 6 months and come back. Can take too much out of me keeping up to date on here all the time.
 
matthebrute

matthebrute

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I enjoy journaling, i enjoy talking with people on here and beign a part of the comunity, but RIU has made way too many mistakes and there has been way too much bullshit going on on this site for me not to think about how it could effect me long term. (if you know what i mean)
 
kdiesel

kdiesel

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im on grasscity already with the same user name....i agree that this site was a much closer (as close as an internet forum can be) community and has a more pleasant interface, but this shit seems shady....
 
matthebrute

matthebrute

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kdiesel said:
im on grasscity already with the same user name....i agree that this site was a much closer (as close as an internet forum can be) community and has a more pleasant interface, but this shit seems shady....
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yes it does, im not trying to convince anyone to leave either, i could care less what other people do. im just stating how i feel about all this
 
Gastanker

Gastanker

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Matt - I just had a thought. Perhaps they don't know when the plugin responsible was added/tampered. There is a chance that they have more up to date backups but that they too would be hacked. These vbulletin hacks have been going on for at least the past week.
 
matthebrute

matthebrute

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ahh, yeah it is possible. BUT that is not what they said. they said

Dear Rollitup Users,

We at rollitup would like to extend our sincerest apologies for the recent downtime you have received. An SQL injection attack hit our server early in the morning causing a lot of our posts to be overwritten and the site was then redirected. As a result the complete backup that we have is from 20-2-2012 and this is what we had to restore from. We were able to however re-import all the users that have registered in the past month back into the system. But I regret to inform you that the post and threads are not recoverable.

Although we have removed the lines of code that opened us to this SQL injection it pains me to say that we lost a month out of rollitups history and I only ask that you bear with us while we recuperate.

Now you may be asking why we only had a backup from February. This is a good question, with a site such as ours data is our friend but it can also be our enemy. We do not like to transport our live data through the lines of the internet for just this reason, so when we do backup our data we make sure that we only get the pertinent information from the files before we shut the doors and lock them again. However as you can see this is a double edged sword.

As I write this letter our admin and coding team are putting together safe guards from this happening again.

I would ask that all comments and questions be limited to this thread only rather than being spread throughout he forum.

Once again I do apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you and we hope that you still hold us in high regard and trust.

Best Wishes,
Rollitup
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Gastanker

Gastanker

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If I was an admin I too would be focused on ensuring people their data was secure versus telling them exactly what actually happened ;)

But who knows. Blows regardless.
 
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