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Episodes Page Outage

March 31st, 2009 by heathenx

Our episodes page was temporarily down for some time today. Sorry for that. We’re not sure what actually happened though. Host Gator was able to restore things back to March 29th, the date of our last backup. Unfortunately, we lost a few user comments but nothing major. Everything seems to be back to normal. :)

Thank-you, Host Gator.

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7 Responses to “Episodes Page Outage”

  1. tomh Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    well done on the backups, it’s always nice to know that they work when they are needed.

    One slight problem with the episodes page’s. It’s impossible to comment on them at the moment – the CAPTCHA doesn’t seem to be showing up, and it is rather hard to guess the right code ;-)

  2. heathenx Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    @tomh

    Ah, you’re right. Looks like simple-captcha is broken on wordpress 2.7.1. That means it gets the boot. I wonder if that is what broke our database…if that’s possible. I have removed it for the time being but we’ll have to add something similar and simple back sometime soon to counter the spam. Thanks for the head-up. :)

  3. Don W Says:
    April 4th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    @HX– On the CAPTCHA, any chance getting one that us slightly colorblind old farts can read? :-)

  4. tomh Says:
    April 27th, 2009 at 5:42 am

    just a quick note to say that you may want to look into the anti-spam stuff again, as quite a few comments are coming up with very simplistic comments and spam links in the website field… take a look at the last few comments on episode 28 as an example ;-<

  5. heathenx Says:
    April 27th, 2009 at 6:27 am

    Thanks, tomh.

    Been busy with other things that I have taken my eye off the ball a bit. I’ve deleted the comments on episode 028 but I’m sure there are more elsewhere. As soon as I can I’ll try to get a new captcha up soon. They’re a pain in the ass for commenters but they sure do help us administer things better.

    Tip for others: Always hover over a link and look at your status bar first before clicking it. Any domain with a .info is suspect as far as I’m concerned. ;)

  6. Richard Querin Says:
    April 27th, 2009 at 10:45 am

    And here I was thinking you were deleting all those single line spam comments. Maybe I should actually get off my arse and do something around here. :P

  7. heathenx Says:
    April 27th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    @Richard Querin
    Ha!…and I thought you were being a “silent” owner. ;)

    I haven’t researched captcha’s for WordPress in a while. Perhaps there are some good ones that we can try.

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