Regarding Recent Downtime (03/02/17 - 03/03/17)
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I read your whole post, and your conspiracies are amusing. I would love to read the third one. Even if you don't feel comfortable posting it. Feel free to PM me them. I'm genuinely interested.
But anyways, I do want to point out that ALL of the graphs show increased growth in our site's activity. That was the point he was trying to make. That all of our growth was causing us horsepower issues which meant more changes were necessary, in that case, the database switch.
The drop at the end of the graph isn't our site tanking, that's just because the month has just started, so the numbers collected for March are very low; and the line connecting Feb and March is a sharp decline.
Careful not to misinterpret data.
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I see, I just assumed the graph had taken into account the fact it was near the beginning. Anyhow I don't have much to do at this time of night, and they are quite fun. So ill type up the 3rd one. Though might be quite a long one.I read your whole post, and your conspiracies are amusing. I would love to read the third one. Even if you don't feel comfortable posting it. Feel free to PM me them. I'm genuinely interested.
But anyways, I do want to point out that ALL of the graphs show increased growth in our site's activity. That was the point he was trying to make. That all of our growth was causing us horsepower issues which meant more changes were necessary, in that case, the database switch.
The drop at the end of the graph isn't our site tanking, that's just because the month has just started, so the numbers collected for March are very low; and the line connecting Feb and March is a sharp decline.
Careful not to misinterpret data.
*Another conspiracy*
Well, Me, Mick, d3l3t3d and quite a few others where in a group chat some time ago, talking about concerns that we had about the site. Though as you can imagine quickly turned into an argument. Anyhow I was watching what people where saying and d3l3t3d said the following:
My response to that was this:
However my comment didn't really get a response, and things moved on from there. BeBosny was aware of what was happening and could have sabotaged the transfer. If d3l3t3d was locked out. Who else could have done it, other than BeBosny? After the transfer was completed the forum came under a number of DDoS attacks, and as d3l3t3d has previously stated, he was setting up his own DDoS protection solution. Assuming, that he is competent (which I think he is) for someone to be able to keep attacking the forum successfully when he would have kept patching the flaws in the system. Shows it wasn't just your standard guy, it was someone with considerable experience. Additionally MCM was hit with layer 7 attacks and at one point it said over 10k guests where online. (Forum was lagging at this point) This was right though the time when BeBosny was quite successfully making Mick look bad. Via various means, (Shout box, thread exposing "tax evasion" etc). It was safe to say he had a real grudge against Mick. Which was understandable, I didn't like him that much at the time either.
I'm also a system admin, however on a smaller scale. (For now) however I'm quite security conscious, and I backdoor all of my servers via multiple different methods, so I could regain access if the worst was to happen. If I was in BeBosnys situation knowing Mick could take away the forum I've worked and spent money on. I would have put things in place, so I could mess things up if everything went wrong. He did say he had backdoors in MCM in the shout box however there is no way to determine if there was any truth to that. Xenforo is quite a complicated thing, with 100's of files. I can imagine it been relatively easy to hide a few pieces of malicious code in there.
Recently there has been a lot of downtime, but interestingly enough the downtime only seems to happen during the mid - late evening for me. Never noticed it during the day. (I live in the UK, so it will be different for others, due to time zones.) I believe BeBosny is in a similar time zone to me. Therefore the downtime occurs during his evening. When he will have done his day, and be at home. Where he could potentially be at his PC. You could say the time it happens it down to a plugin problem, or peak time, however if it was, it would happen daily. Rather than randomly.
As people have said MCM shouldn't have been down that long, because of AWS. (Since the problem for other sites, didn't last any where near as long) Was that used as a way to cover his tracks? Since people would assume its AWS.
Now you know a bit of background, what if all the problems have been BeBosny taking revenge on Mick. Or alternatively, Mick rejected his offer to buy MCM. Therefore he could be trying to put users off using MCM, making it less valuable and declining. Then he could come in once more and offer to buy the forum again, but for far less. Mick would likely have to sell it at this point. He come's back. The forum then no longer has any problems. Everyone likes him for "saving the forum" and no one is any wiser about what happened.
Anyhow sorry if there are any typos or spelling mistakes, its 4AM for me, so I'm not at my best.
Just as I'm about to finish, I get a cloudfront error. Hmm, coincidence?
(Not to be taken too seriously, incase some people haven't realised that)
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I'm not going to argue everything but I just want to clarify that I never locked them out. Here are the Skype chat logs between myself and Mick his dad during the transfer. I was being extremely friendly about it considering the situation I was in. You can ask Mick to verify the integrity of this conversation. https://chatlo.gs/wtlUe7xB - I did log in to the server after they moved away (simply because I was curious as to what happened) and I was completely right about them being locked out. The firewall did automatically block them because the IP of the new server wasn't whitelisted and I had a very sensitive firewall set up. Besides those accusations they had the guts to change the password on my own machine. I'm going to try to keep myself out this whole drama thing, just wanted to clear any accusations.
And no, I've already made it fairly clear that I'm not willing to buy MC-Market anymore.
Hence why his dad runs the operations behind the scenes, yes.
Where do you see this?
BeBosny's post.
Just because his dad also works for MCM, doesn't mean he is under the age of 18...?
EDIT - Talking with user in PM to prevent thread spam.
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He's currently 16. He said so himself in the shoutbox earlier today.
I am probably late on this post, but AWS was down last week for a good amount of time, one of their data centers or so was down. Mcm has been on and off a lot the last few weeks and I do not think it is AWS, I think it is Cloudfront, but of course I don't really know, that is what I think. I apologize if anybody already said this as I did not read through the comments.
This thread went from ''we apologize for downtime'' to conspiracy theories, awkwardly trying to win arguments, and the constant complaining that is expected on this forum. Thanks for the update.
I'm a sysadmin myself. It's only my responsibility if it's a system issue. Unfortunately, here, we know the issue is somewhere along the distribution chain with MCM but it could be within the front-end XF end (which has nothing to do with a sysadmin) or the back-end, which sure, could be the responsibility of a sysadmin.
I think so - but it depends on if the sysadmins here are cheap and incompetent, or skilled and not responsible for the issues the site is having. I don't know them, I don't know their qualifications. There were some inconsistencies and illogical statements in his summary, but other than that I don't know anything about them.
As you know, my business isn't Minecraft and I don't frequent this site. So I wouldn't know of any long term issues.
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