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Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: sherrie on 2007 June 19, 03:37:37 Due to an attack on the sites, wicked sims and all its 17 hosted free sites:
Adored Reality, Dour Sim, eXpresSims, WS Finds, Sims2Graveyard, GLAMstuf, LaPink, MySimSite, Nostalgic Sims, OohLaLa Sims, Pernille's Pages, Provocative Pixie, PoisonPinkLemons, Sims2Crave, SherrieSim, SIMply Vogue, and Wicked Sims are now offline for the time being. Please take a look at this page, and any help would be greatly appreciated. http://wickedsims.com/downtime.html Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 June 19, 04:00:16 I sent a message to Jessica yesterday offering help but haven't heard anything. I clicked on the link you gave, Sherrie, and am shown a Hostican page stating "It seems your account is currently using too much CPU / Memory time."
My offer of help still stands. I just need to know what/where/how. :) Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: sherrie on 2007 June 19, 04:04:03 yes, the attacks are still in progress, and its just taken the page she just put up offline.
basically its a DDos attack, they are running a programme attacking the server with many ips. Unfortunatly this has taken the one remaining page off. all I can say is someone must be making a hell of a lot of money, to go to these lengths to protect their 'business' Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 June 19, 04:16:48 I just checked my email (should have before I said anything here, lol) and there was a note from Jessica there.
I think this is totally craptacular. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Randomness on 2007 June 19, 04:33:50 Pardon my ignorance please, but aren't DDoS attacks illegal?
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 June 19, 04:42:14 They are.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: littlemisspirate on 2007 June 19, 04:53:05 Does the attack appear to be random (like all sites from your hosting company, as an example) or targeted specifically to Wicked Sims? Because the timing seems a bit too good to be a coincidence.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 June 19, 05:07:34 That's something that only Jessica could answer.
I did put a notice up on my forum explaining briefly what's happening and linking to the Downtime.html page. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: sherrie on 2007 June 19, 06:04:12 all sites within the wicked sims network. jessica says it started with wicked sims, then onto mangos and then all her hosted sites. The attack stopped about 1 hour ago, but she expects it will pick up again. it seemed to be a programme which attacked each of the sites in turn.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anyerfillag on 2007 June 19, 09:28:16 Well if it hasn't attacked any other sites hosted (bar the Sims 2 ones) by the company providing the hosting and domains, then it's more than likely an attack from a very sour grape; maybe someone on WickedSims (which is started from) has ticked someone off and they're geting their own back?
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Doursim on 2007 June 19, 11:58:34 I think that an aforementioned post eluded to the fact that this attack comes directly after notice of Wicked Sims policy change to include pay meshes/objects in their uploads. The policy had been around for a few weeks before the announcement appeared HERE, but drawing attention on PMBD would defiantly attract greater negative attention.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and accuse a TSR groupie. From the sounds of it, Jessica was attacked first, then Mango, sherrie... seeing a pattern? I would suspect that the rest of the sites that were attacked were an attempt to throw people off scent. Pescado mentioned that someone had tried the same thing to this server (no surprise here), and also to Nouk a month or so back. It may not be the same person but one never knows. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: SoggyFox on 2007 June 19, 12:21:18 Karma is like physics. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Or, put more simply, who ever is doing this is going to find it backfiring in a rather spectacular way.
I'll just put in a few words with Nemesis, she's good with this sort of thing. :D Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anouk on 2007 June 19, 15:07:55 It's funny the same thing happened to me a few months ago. Some rumours reached me that someone was trying to take noukiesims2 offline, and I passed it off as bullshit.
Seems it was not so. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Bigtruckgirl on 2007 June 19, 15:19:53 This is just the absolutely shittiest thing I have ever heard of. I mean it is one thing to bitch, grip, moan and complain about freesites, but to actively target their site to take it down by means of cyber terrorism is just absolutely ridiculous. I wish people would grow the fuck up. This is so damned high school it is not even funny. It reminds me of Rat threatening to do the same shit to us here. So damned childish then and now. AND what message are they sending out...
"If you can't take someone down legally, then illegally is OK." Great concept to be teaching our children in this day and age. :roll: Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Zazazu on 2007 June 19, 15:31:01 The bastards. Well, let us know when/if you are looking for donations. I saw here (http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/viewtopic.php?p=36020#36020) that you most likely will be, and goodness knows TSR isn't getting my money anymore. I use several associated sites.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Captain Berg on 2007 June 19, 15:37:11 When one thought they couldn't go any lower... :cry:
(with "they" I mean paysites, of course. Sure, no proof, but who else..?) Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: MizzKitty on 2007 June 19, 17:50:34 It sucks so bad. And at this time when some people (me) have blown all their money on their vacation plans so they (I) can't even afford to help :cry:
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Paden on 2007 June 19, 18:33:56 Is there not a way that her company can trace these attacks? Someone long ago told me that while hard, it could be done. Once traced and identified, legal action would certainly follow and charges brought up... And maybe, just maybe, some dumb son of a bitch/stupid cunt paysite owner would be going down... I would so love to see that... I hate hackers... Pass the rum, please... I mean, pass the rum NOW!!! Arrrrrr!
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: nostalgicpaty on 2007 June 19, 18:55:51 I am still very confused on what the attacks are. And why the attacks are making the memory go up. I am from Nostalgic Sims one of the sites that are being hosted by Wicked Sims.This stuff all sucks. once jessica gets a pay pal donation button ill try to donate cause i just want this all solved.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: missangelica on 2007 June 19, 19:00:23 Quote from: "nostalgicpaty" I am still very confused on what the attacks are. And why the attacks are making the memory go up. http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+DOS+ATTACK A type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic. Many DoS attacks, such as the Ping of Death and Teardrop attacks, exploit limitations in the TCP/IP protocols. For all known DoS attacks, there are software fixes that system administrators can install to limit the damage caused by the attacks. But, like viruses, new DoS attacks are constantly being dreamed up by hackers. Title: no more jolly rodger Post by: atgnat on 2007 June 19, 19:08:14 **Bugger**. :evil:
So THAT's what happened to our sites. I never dreamed that something like this could happen. Count on me to donate, payday is in a few days' time. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Nokomys on 2007 June 19, 19:25:02 Hello all. I come to you from WickedSims- but I don't really know anymore than anyone else...
Quote from: "Doursim" I think that an aforementioned post eluded to the fact that this attack comes directly after notice of Wicked Sims policy change to include pay meshes/objects in their uploads. Yep, exactly that. Quote from: "sherrie_sim" all I can say is someone must be making a hell of a lot of money, to go to these lengths to protect their 'business' Who makes that much money? TSR. I've done some math and have realized that if even 1/4 of their membership spends even $10 with them during the course of a year they're making $2 million dollars or more per year. And they're making it off of artists donating their items to their site and some even paying them for the priviledge of donating their work. Sucktacular. (I know, I sound like a broken record on that fact but it really ticks me off...) Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 June 19, 19:29:51 Quote from: "Nokomys" Sucktacular. (I know, I sound like a broken record on that fact but it really ticks me off...) Not with new and improooved words like that - the more inventive the insults, the more the fun. Plus there's like 200+ pages devoted to particular sites - it's not as if we don't go round and round like broken records every time, trying to categorise our rage :lol: Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Apsalar on 2007 June 19, 19:49:41 ZOmg! I can't believe how low some people will go...!
Arrr! If I wasn't such a lazy pirate, I'd use a couple of tricks I know and let vengeance have its say! Yarrr! ----- How Ironic - I am moderator on a security site, and I felt like linking to some sims2 sites I really love in my sig - but I refrained from it and didn't link, because I know many sims2 sites don't really focus on security - and the site I am moderator on draws many vicious teenagers. LOL Actually, it might be that someone is just doing this because they can, not because they care about the paysite vs freesite discussion. Although, it is more likely some paysite owner has recruited some black hat to do some work - they certianly have the money. And I wouldn't be surprised if they have the connections aswell. Pffft! I hate black hats. Title: Wicked Sims Post by: simminggramma on 2007 June 19, 20:26:25 I'm mostly just a lurker. I find the discussions on this forum quite revealing about the Sims community. And yes, maybe I do tend to watch to many conspiracy theory-related tv shows--but just to put out there for consideration:
There has been one site owner who did threaten black hat activities. Of course, now everything on her site is free-but she did jump into bed with the TSR "community" project. Could her going free have been a play to defer suspicion while she continued to plan and plot in the background with other paysites? Oh well, my two cents. Back to my corner to lurk more. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Zazazu on 2007 June 19, 21:41:20 Oooh! Who? Inquiring uninformed minds want to know!
I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, and I think pointing a big ole' finger at one person/site without evidence is too much of a leap, but the likelihood of this not being done by a paysite or someone(s) associated with a paysite seems quite low. Things have most certainly been coming to a head this last month. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: MizzKitty on 2007 June 19, 22:45:02 The link is this: http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/hate/retailsims.html
As for the black hat bit: Quote What is a black hat? It is a type of hacker that does not operate within the boundaries of the law. A black hat is often a malicious hacker who seeks to tamper with and / or exploit a program, file, server or other media (hardware or software) for personal gain or just for the fuck of it. White hats, by comparison, are "good guy" hackers (who work to improve security). Grey Hats fall in between. The leader of the group who is stealing files suggested to me that I did not know what a black hat was when I mentioned (repeatedly) that I would love to find one to fuck up the files he's serving with some very nasty viruses. Unfortunately for him I know very well what black hats are. My husband, depending on your perspective, is one. If my husband did not have a high security government job this would not be a discussion and the files on that site would have been infected with a series of viruses designed to destroy a computer - not merely correctable by a format and reinstall. Once he went legit I had to remove myself from any and all contacts with 'undesirable' types and most foreigners. J.M. Pescado and everyone who downloads those stolen files should consider themselves lucky that this didn't happen a few years earlier Than again, you never know when an old friend may crawl out of the woodwork or when a bunch come to town for a Black Hat Convention (I can damn near throw a rock at that hotel from my balcony). I can't stop J.M. Pescado or those like them but I can fuck with stolen goods all I want. Consider yourself warned. My take on this particular person, however, is that she's full of shit and the threat is empty. Heck, her hubby probably works at McDonald's. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: nostalgicpaty on 2007 June 19, 22:47:12 thanks missangelica i understand now. i cant believe someone would take time to do this. :evil: :evil: i hope we can find out who orginized the attacks.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Zazazu on 2007 June 20, 06:08:39 Who was the one in control of Retail Sims?
And sheesh, what a rant. I love these sorts of things, especially since it's they who are doing the illegal thing, and we who have received official word from EA that redistributing paysite content in a free manner is fine. I've never seen a PMBD/similar supporter get as self-righteous or generally pissy as a paysite owner who has been thwarted. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: sherrie on 2007 June 20, 06:14:35 Quote Thank you for visiting Unfortunately, we are experiencing some major problems. We are trying to work on a solution at this time, and our host is investigating the issue. I am waiting to hear from the host to figure out if they can solve the problem or not. It appears that even though all of the sites have been down and redirected to this page for the past two days or so, the databases (for the forums) are still being queried an insane amount of times, and ramping up our CPU usage. In addition to that, random IP's from around the world were trying to access pages/files that never existed continuously (several files per second) which seems to have finally ceased earlier today. Banning/Blocking those IP's did no good, I tried to do that for several hours Monday afternoon, it was pointless. Even with all of the sites down, our CPU usage peaked today at 15%. So the tech support team is now investigating -- I finally got through to a live person lol he sounded pretty cute too, anyways, I am waiting to hear back from them. I am hoping they can resolve the issue and block whoever is causing the problems so that things can go back to normal. I am still working on Plan B just in case, but at this point in time there really isn't anything you guys can do. I appreciate all the emails of support and assistance, and I am completely surprised by how many emails I've gotten. You guys are amazing. For more information, keep checking this page for updates, email me: jessica@wickedsims.com, or check PMBD. In the meantime, please visit other great free sites like Noukie Sims, Betsy's Little Sim Shoppes, Parsimonious, and MTS2. Update from wicked sims, quoted incase the page gets brought down again Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Ensign EO on 2007 June 20, 06:29:40 Quote from: "kariminger" Who was the one in control of Retail Sims? Heather. HChangeri or something like that. Some crazy woman in her thirties or so who should know better but clearly doesn't. She ran off to Turbosquid to sell meshes of cubes or something in an attempt to stick it to the pirates. Or something. She also had a Myspace that had her delusional ranting, but I don't know if it's still up. Should check the threads on her. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: darkangel on 2007 June 20, 14:58:58 Can I blame TSR? LOL. Seriously, LaPink is IcedMango's site...she left TSR and Thomas was forced to release her stuff after EA stepped in.
I blame TSR. :lol: Edit: Sorry, too tired. I meant Sherrie obviously. :roll: It's just because Iced Mango is hosted now at WickedSims and left TSR. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Minolia on 2007 June 20, 15:05:19 Quote from: "darkangel" Can I blame TSR? LOL. Seriously, LaPink is IcedMango's site...she left TSR and Thomas was forced to release her stuff after EA stepped in. I blame TSR. :lol: Really, I heard EA stepped in to make them release Sherrie's stuff but I didn't read anything about IcedMango having to get them to do the same. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: darkangel on 2007 June 20, 15:07:50 Quote from: "Minolia" Quote from: "darkangel" Can I blame TSR? LOL. Seriously, LaPink is IcedMango's site...she left TSR and Thomas was forced to release her stuff after EA stepped in. I blame TSR. :lol: Really, I heard EA stepped in to make them release Sherrie's stuff but I didn't read anything about IcedMango having to get them to do the same. Duh I'm too tired...yeah that was Sherrie (but Iced Mango is hosted now at WickedSims and left TSR nevertheless)....anyway, that's why I'm figuring it's kind of suspicious. Plus we all know Thomas can program ...a DoS attack would be a piece of cake for him. :roll: Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Captain Feathersword on 2007 June 20, 15:23:39 I don't know that Thomas can program, I know that Per can. Maybe Thomas can but he strikes me as the guy with the big stick not the one who can actually do anything himself. I may be wrong, that's just the impression I have.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Marhis on 2007 June 20, 16:52:31 Frankly, I love gossips, but I don't think that TSR is behind this attack. Thomas is evil, yes, but not an idiot (not till this extent, at least, lol).
I imagine Thomass more on the line of trying to build his own niche, maybe trying to obtain a sort of licence by EA, stuff like that. I mean, he's a businessman, and businessmen don't invest money to simply annoy people, with so dubious effect in the long run. An attack like that seems more a work of some exalted minion, obviously idiot, with a distorted moral and a very little perception of reality (or none at all). Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: karu on 2007 June 20, 17:51:34 Quote from: "Marhis" Frankly, I love gossips, but I don't think that TSR is behind this attack. Thomas is evil, yes, but not an idiot (not till this extent, at least, lol). I imagine Thomass more on the line of trying to build his own niche, maybe trying to obtain a sort of licence by EA, stuff like that. I mean, he's a businessman, and businessmen don't invest money to simply annoy people, with so dubious effect in the long run. An attack like that seems more a work of some exalted minion, obviously idiot, with a distorted moral and a very little perception of reality (or none at all). lyriclee? :shock: (http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/7411/lyricleevj0.th.jpg) (http://img78.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lyricleevj0.jpg) Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: darkangel on 2007 June 20, 18:12:39 Nah, frankly...she doesn't seem like the smartest out there to me, sorry2say. Maybe one of her bimbos...anyhoo...isn't there an IP to log? :?
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: darkangel on 2007 June 20, 18:14:22 orly
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Jojoba on 2007 June 20, 18:20:36 RUMMMMM
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anouk on 2007 June 20, 18:51:06 yarly
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: crazy4wipeout on 2007 June 20, 18:59:13 Is it possible that something like this could happen randomly? Yes, I know I'm grasping here but I hate even imagining that someone would deliberately do something so foul. Over Sims. I really hope her hosting company can somehow track the person(s) responsible for this.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Apsalar on 2007 June 20, 19:24:07 Yes, it is possible that the community has attracted some random black hat out there - but it is still not very likely.
Tis like ye jus' happen t' find an untouched keg o' rum inside yer coat a hot tide on th' sea - 't can happen, but 'tis ridiculously unlikely! :lol: Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Lwerszva on 2007 June 21, 11:43:08 Quote from: "Navigator" Yes, it is possible that the community has attracted some random black hat out there - but it is still not very likely. Tis like ye jus' happen t' find an untouched keg o' rum inside yer coat a hot tide on th' sea - 't can happen, but 'tis ridiculously unlikely! :lol: Navigator, I'm a little worried about you and that pirate lingo translator. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Rae Kira on 2007 June 21, 19:11:21 I saw that page before. I was going through the links of some sites because I was bored, and one link led be to wickedsims' network.
I also truly hope the culprit is caught. But on the other hand, this is a good chance for us. PMBD [and SFV?] has [have] started the ball rolling. Someone out there is getting scared enough to attack, like a cornered cat. In the short time, this attack is awful. But in the long run, I think this is going to do good... I suck at explaining. I hope you got the general idea. :X Also, I do wonder if there is a way to translate back from pirate lingo...? Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: mistymage on 2007 June 21, 20:36:26 This is interesting coming on the heels of simlogical getting hacked recently.
Who's next? Hopefully.. no one. And even more hopefully at some point karma bites the perps on the butt. Title: oh Thank you Post by: atgnat on 2007 June 22, 18:30:22 Well, good news!!
Just saw that our sites are back up. :shock: (I'm from eXpresSims.net - one of the sites hosted by WickedSims) I see the WickedSims Forum is still down - all their content is on the forum, but I checked out my sister-sites... They are up and running. :lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks Jessica, don't know what you did, but I'm a happy chick. :D Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: vermillionclouds on 2007 June 22, 22:38:37 Seems like WickedSims isn't the only site that got hit recently.
http://www.xanga.com/john/599000169/yesterday.html Maybe they're just random attacks? Maybe they're not related at all? Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Wrinkly Willy on 2007 June 22, 23:05:03 Could it be spreading? MTS2 and SS2 both seem to be currently down. Not SC2 though, and I believe they are all on the same server?
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Rae Kira on 2007 June 22, 23:31:33 And I guess the Pentagon went through a cyber attack too?
This is more than just a little strange. Prolly coincidental, but still weird. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anyerfillag on 2007 June 23, 00:01:26 Nope, both MTS2 and S2C are fine :?
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: mickey on 2007 June 23, 02:59:03 Actually I had a attack on my site! A hacker actually. Got my password, and changed parts of my site! But a great friend of mine, and also another Admin cought on quickle and was able to cheange back everything that was damaged. I also found that they tried to play smart with me, thinking that I won't notice the new Admin account. :x Assholes. I deleted that shit as soon as I saw it! I changed all my passowrds, log-ins and all that.
I was so pissed when I saw this! :x :x Title: false alarm Post by: atgnat on 2007 June 23, 09:21:47 oops. :shock: So the BIG host made a booboo, and sounds like Jessica is livid. :evil:
Just follow the link to see the updated page. Downtime link (http://wickedsims.com/downtime.html) Title: Re: false alarm Post by: Pucci on 2007 June 23, 11:47:26 Yeah, you got me all excited earlier when you said it was back up, so I go to check only to find this:
Quote Update June 22 630pm PST: Without my permission, the host undid the redirects while I was offline today, so we would go back to normal--and without fixing the CPU usage issues. Which means at any moment they could force me to upgrade or close the account. Now they are claiming (in email) that it's my problem and I need to fix it. How can I fix it when the problem was more than likely due to the attacks? Blah. Anyways I am resetting the redirects up (which is why you are now seeing this page) and I guess I will need to call tech support yet again and hopefully I will get through to a live person. Will update this page with more info when I have it. So now I am back to being bummed. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Quorneater on 2007 June 23, 11:57:48 Gordon Bennet! I have often wondered whether (looks around to see who's listening) some of these hosts mess about with sites themselves just to force them to upgrade :x
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Pescado on 2007 June 23, 12:13:10 Quote from: "mistymage" This is interesting coming on the heels of simlogical getting hacked recently. Ingelogical was hacked? Any idea how? Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Quorneater on 2007 June 23, 13:20:41 To be honest I haven't a clue except it would be likely to have been through the forum rather than database or ftp, because they wouldn't have known whose attachments were whose that way and probably would have wiped the lot, and not via a top level admin account or my own forum stuff would have been wrecked too. So the entry point was probably through a global moderator level account, which did have authority to edit the attachment settings for their own level and below.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Hecubus on 2007 June 23, 13:54:42 By the way, this DoD shit seems to be happening all over - livejournal had an attack earlier this month, as did a progressive site I visit. Something's in the air, I guess.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Lourdes on 2007 June 23, 19:25:47 So is this the norm and acceptable to have a host where you have to go through hell and high water to speak to a live tech support person?
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: vermillionclouds on 2007 June 23, 21:44:27 Livejournal got hit too? That's strange that so many sites would get hit in such a short ammount of time.
I could see the attacks on Xanga and LJ being related. Maybe even Progressive (unless it's not the car insurance site). But WickedSims? It all makes me wonder who else has been getting hit. It might just be some kid who learned a new trick and is having fun going around and smashing random sites. An adult probably wouldn't bother. I think. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: wicked_one on 2007 June 24, 04:32:54 Quote from: "Lourdes" So is this the norm and acceptable to have a host where you have to go through hell and high water to speak to a live tech support person? I dont think the problem is getting to a live op, i think the problem is getting anyone to actually do what they say theyre going to do or what you expect they should do? I mean she said the live op told her they were going to investigate, then they ignore her for awhile and when she asks how the investigations going they tell her its her problem--because they dont want to investigate? Or they are hoping she wont be able to fix the problem so they can force her to upgrade? Either way its shittastic service, and unfortunately, is to be expected from shared hosting. I hope if she leaves she can get a refund Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Lorelei on 2007 June 24, 04:40:40 Quote from: "vermillionclouds" Livejournal got hit too? They theorized that it was due to Russians protesting the mentions of DPNI. Quote Just a few hours it was impossible to post messages that contained the following links: “ru_nbp”, “nbp_ru” [NBP is the National Bolshevik Party], “ru_politics” и “dрni” [DPNI is the Movement Against Illegal Immigration] (the last one is written with the Russian “p” because Latin script is still not being let through). It doesn’t matter what my attitude toward NBP or DPNI is. What’s important is that a purposeful pressure on democracy is taking place and the citizens’ constitutional right of free access to information is being limited. For more on what that is, GoogWikiHoo for you. If you care, of course. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Nokomys on 2007 June 24, 08:06:06 YEA!
Quote Update June 23 1145pm PST: Although I havent gotten ahold of a live person @ the host, I have some news for you. Nouk and I will be sharing a server from Kathy@Insim. She will be doing all the tech stuff and we will have a donation button up in case any of you want to help us pay for the server. It could take up to 3 days for the server to be ready. Once it's ready we will make the move and hopefully not have anymore problems :) So Big Thank You to Nouk and Kathy!! Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Witchboy on 2007 June 24, 08:33:57 Well this is the first time i could get to PMBD or MATY since tuesday. I think it was tuesday? I couldnt even get to SFV. Im glad to see this forum & all here are well.
Was PMBD, MATY & SFV attacked as well? All i got was a 404 error *Or what ever its called lol* when trying to access this site. Same with SFV. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Deckhand Dollface on 2007 June 24, 09:11:42 i think sfv is having a major revamp....
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: vermillionclouds on 2007 June 24, 13:45:39 More reasons why Nouk and Kathy are awesome!
As for the livejournal thing, I read about that dpni thing. Didn't really care much about it since I'm no way involved with russian politics. Nor do I care if LJ starts sensoring. I can always go somewhere else. *shrug* I'm really wondering why people keep asking if PMBD/MATY/SFV are getting hit. I haven't had any problems with them at all but it seems like a bunch of others are. I think it's probably just high traffic from normal people or they need to clear their cache. Or something else easily explained. Title: BIG THANK YOU!! Post by: atgnat on 2007 June 25, 06:32:51 Thanks Nouk and Kathy! :lol:
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Lorelei on 2007 June 25, 09:51:48 Quote from: "vermillionclouds" I'm really wondering why people keep asking if PMBD/MATY/SFV are getting hit. I haven't had any problems with them at all but it seems like a bunch of others are. I think it's probably just high traffic from normal people or they need to clear their cache. Or something else easily explained. I'm on dialup, using FFox, and I have had ZERO problems getting into PMBD or MATY. SFV, I haven't tried. Clear history, clear cache, use FireFox, try again. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Pescado on 2007 June 25, 12:02:23 Quote from: "Lourdes" So is this the norm and acceptable to have a host where you have to go through hell and high water to speak to a live tech support person? Pretty much, yeah. Tech support is traditionally both awful and clueless when it comes to the webhosting business. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Apsalar on 2007 June 25, 15:34:51 Quote from: "Lwerszva" Quote from: "Navigator" Yes, it is possible that the community has attracted some random black hat out there - but it is still not very likely. Tis like ye jus' happen t' find an untouched keg o' rum inside yer coat a hot tide on th' sea - 't can happen, but 'tis ridiculously unlikely! :lol: Navigator, I'm a little worried about you and that pirate lingo translator. Whaterefor? :D Title: Jessica purchased a server. Post by: chemistrycourtney on 2007 July 01, 14:29:14 I decided to email her to find out if there was anything i could do to help, and if there was a donation drive, i'd be happy to donate to it, etc. this was my reply back.
"Hi Thank you for your email. We were having alot of problems (attacks, host refusing to investigate, cpu usage hit the max allowed, etc) and decided to purchase a server. I just bought the server yesterday and it will take about 3 days before it will be ready for me. Then we will be going through the moving process. So it will still be a little bit longer before my site, and all the other hosted sites will be back online. All the content has been backed up so nothing will be lost in the process :) Thank you for your support and kindness, I am hoping all will go back to normal soon. ~*~Jessica~*~ Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 01, 22:21:01 That's wonderful news. I'm glad she's getting it all sorted out. I'd been wondering if everything was working out for her but being busy I haven't had a chance to check up on her. Thanks for the update. :D
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: chemistrycourtney on 2007 July 01, 22:38:28 Quote from: "evilredduckie" That's wonderful news. I'm glad she's getting it all sorted out. I'd been wondering if everything was working out for her but being busy I haven't had a chance to check up on her. Thanks for the update. :D no problem. i was surprised that i got such a prompt response back in my email box. (i'd just sent the email the day before.) With as busy as they've all been trying to sort out the mess with their sites, I more figured they could read my email for morale boosts and a nice thinking of you quality, but since I got the reply, I figured everyone would want to know the general progress. :) I'll be glad for all of those sites when it gets back up and running again. I'm sure they will be as well. Title: not to be excessive.. Post by: chemistrycourtney on 2007 July 09, 17:19:50 Ok, so not to keep talking about this, but there's a new message at Wicked Sims 2. Here it is:
Update July 5: Purchased a server and am working on setting it up. Unfortunately I have never setup a server before so I'm trying to figure it out and am looking for help. Once it is ready we will be in the process of moving. Please be patient :) Ok, so i have no idea how to set up servers, but maybe some of you do, and could help them out? That's it for my update on Wicked Sims 2. I'll keep looking until they work again... Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Blodeuwedd on 2007 July 09, 20:16:04 I also got a simmilar email from Jess. I do hope the sites go back online soon ansd if there is a way to help (donation drive) I'll be glad to help!
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 July 10, 03:14:44 Actually, if anyone knows how to set up a server, email Jess and offer your help - she's having trouble getting help and understanding how to do it. :D
jessica@wickedsims.com Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Pescado on 2007 July 10, 07:45:33 I can do it pretty easily, but email is filthy. If you have a real, proper server, I can have it up and running within the hour. The only thing it'll cost you is your soul.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 July 10, 08:17:08 She has a real live server - I will give you the soul. She would appreciate it Pescado. She's having trouble with the web host manager last I spoke to her.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anouk on 2007 July 10, 12:02:27 Quote from: "Pescado" I can do it pretty easily, but email is filthy. If you have a real, proper server, I can have it up and running within the hour. The only thing it'll cost you is your soul. Soul? There is no such thing. At least not in Jess's body, seeping of pure evil and flames of helllll! :P Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Pescado on 2007 July 10, 12:41:55 Quote from: "calalily" She has a real live server - I will give you the soul. She would appreciate it Pescado. She's having trouble with the web host manager last I spoke to her. Right. Tell her that I need the IP and root password. If she doesn't have this information, then she also does not have a real server, which would explain the problem. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 July 10, 12:59:15 Update - Jessica got help from Delphy - but you have revealed yourself as a helpful and nice person - a shocker! Pescado - the do gooder!
(http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8885/bustedsw4.jpg) Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anouk on 2007 July 10, 13:37:37 I love that cat.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Quorneater on 2007 July 10, 13:55:52 He looks very like my old cat Arthur :)
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anouk on 2007 July 10, 14:18:15 the look on his face: "This piece of paper tastes like heaven ansovis!"
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Pescado on 2007 July 10, 15:32:33 Quote from: "calalily" Update - Jessica got help from Delphy - but you have revealed yourself as a helpful and nice person - a shocker! Pescado - the do gooder! Ha! I only offered to do it in exchange for HER SOUL. A perfectly evil thing to do. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Anouk on 2007 July 10, 17:45:02 Quote from: "Pescado" Quote from: "calalily" Update - Jessica got help from Delphy - but you have revealed yourself as a helpful and nice person - a shocker! Pescado - the do gooder! Ha! I only offered to do it in exchange for HER SOUL. A perfectly evil thing to do. HA! Souls don't excist! You are fluffy! :D *runs away as fast and as far as she can* Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 10, 19:12:20 Quote from: "Pescado" Quote from: "calalily" you have revealed yourself as a helpful and nice person - a shocker! Pescado - the do gooder! Ha! I only offered to do it in exchange for HER SOUL. A perfectly evil thing to do. The offer to help not only negates but far surpasses the evilness of asking for her soul in exchange. :shock: Pescado's actually a good guy! :shock: Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Hecubus on 2007 July 10, 21:56:48 Nah.
Pescado is evil. It's not like he's gonna use the soul for good. He's gonna eat it. Sheesh. How evil can you get? Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 10, 22:04:40 Well, if he's hungry I don't see how that's evil. That's just satisfying a need.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Paden on 2007 July 10, 22:24:49 Ahhh, lay off the meanie! He only wanted it because he was hungry for filet of soul! Cripes....
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Frank on 2007 July 11, 00:40:23 Quote from: "Hecubus" Nah. Pescado is evil. It's not like he's gonna use the soul for good. He's gonna eat it. Sheesh. How evil can you get? Try eating the soul, then using the former flesh of the soul as TP......now that's evil.......... Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Doursim on 2007 July 24, 03:29:34 We're back. Like Schwarzenegger, baby.
I'll do penance for the cornyness later, guys :wink: Right now I'm just so happy everyone is finally back online. Thank you Jessica for putting in so much time and effort to get everything running back as normal :P Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 July 24, 04:01:40 Yay yay yay. Everyone dogpile! :lol:
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Paden on 2007 July 24, 04:03:35 Gimme a linkie thingie and I'll join! Only for me it's more of a catpile... I like dogs, but felines appeal more to my nature.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 July 24, 04:11:28 http://www.wickedsims2.com/index.shtml
And of course, Jessica hosts Doursim and Sherrie sim, and Iced Mango's site, and My Sim Site. So they're all back. :D Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: AW on 2007 July 24, 04:15:17 Break out the rum and cookies! Woohoo - that is so awesome.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: AW on 2007 July 24, 04:18:17 Do we need to delete previous cookies? It says I am logged in but then in tells me I am a guest but my screen name is at the top.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 July 24, 04:28:39 I don't know - but if you can download, then all is well. :D
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Yaardarm Monkey on 2007 July 24, 04:51:15 ya might rethink your affiliates Jessica...that sims2likeithot is a nutjob
Welcome to Sims2 Like It Hot Fashion News July 22nd, 2007 I am sorry! No update. And it will take some time... You do ask yourself why? Well, let me explain it to you all: Due to the discussions all over the Sims2 Community about destroying paysites I have been thinking alot about it lately. I'm not a big supporter of paysites but they do exist and they won't disappear. EA doesn't make a clear statement, so what are the reasons for some people to force other sites to close because they offer pay content? Those people are worse than each of the paysite owners. They think they can judge about others, steal the work of them and offer it on so-called "pirate sites". Congratulations, you all are the world's greatest heroes. Ever. Did you ever consider that you are going to destroy the existing community as well? That you you are also cause hatred against free sites? Thanks alot of taking away the fun creating stuff for the Sims2. I just support Solander's decision to take Pimp My Sims offline for some days. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Yaardarm Monkey on 2007 July 24, 04:54:47 Quote from: "calalily" I don't know - but if you can download, then all is well. :D naw, I get some weird: Forum Temporarily Turned Off :? Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Doursim on 2007 July 24, 04:58:07 Jess is doing work on her forum for now. It's in maintenance mode until she has everything ironed out.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 24, 05:11:55 (http://www.derailedsims2.com/images/smileys/woohoo.gif)
I'm so glad it's back up! Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Paden on 2007 July 24, 05:32:58 Dour, I went to your page and got some things I'd been meaning to grab awhile back and then the trouble hit! That really ticked me off... Anyhow, I got my stuff and while I did sign your guestbook, I wanted to thank you here as well for the cool stuff you make! Thanks and it looks wonderful in my game and doesn't bork it up!
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 24, 06:18:01 Dour, I love the message you have up on your front page. (http://www.derailedsims2.com/images/smileys/ninja.gif)
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Moune on 2007 July 24, 11:25:46 Fabulous news! Congratulations to you all. :D I so needed My Sims Site to come back online.
Now, I know I'm new here, but aren't we celebrating this with some rum? *Passes around the bottles* Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Doursim on 2007 July 24, 13:36:44 Quote from: "evilredduckie" Dour, I love the message you have up on your front page. (http://www.derailedsims2.com/images/smileys/ninja.gif) Lol that's old. Seems kind of silly to have it, now that Inge has imploded it (I think she has, I haven't looked). I've already made a new page, just waiting on ftp info to upload it :P Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 24, 19:46:01 Old or not, it gave me a hell of a giggle. :lol:
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: keirra on 2007 July 24, 22:44:43 Dour, is the link for your site (the www link at the bottom of your post) wrong? I click it and get "can't find server" error.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: calalily on 2007 July 25, 03:58:36 Works fine for me right now keirra.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: keirra on 2007 July 25, 04:05:23 That's weird. I still get the same can't find server error. I even tried IE and still I can't get in. Is is possible that my IP was banned? I didn't do anything, I swear. :D
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 25, 04:14:01 Did you clear your cookies and cache? Sometimes junk in there causes your browser to go kablooowie.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: keirra on 2007 July 25, 04:22:02 I just did that, but still the same message. I tried your site, got in fine, same with calalily's site. I even googled Doursim and can't get there. :?
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Doursim on 2007 July 25, 04:33:32 I don't ban IPs. I don't know what the problem is :( I'll ask Jess about it and see if she has any answers.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: keirra on 2007 July 25, 05:01:48 Thanks Doursim, I would appreciate it. I don't know what else to try. I have been to your site before, but, it has been over a month.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Duckie on 2007 July 25, 05:53:40 Sounds like a site specific problem then. Have you tried going to any of the other sites hosted by Jessica? Try Adored Reality (http://adored-reality.net/) or NostalgicSims (http://nostalgicsims.com/).
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: keirra on 2007 July 25, 06:31:57 I checked the two links you provided, got in fine. Then I clicked on the list of sites they host at wickedsims and there were 3 that gave me the same message, glamsims, sherriesim and oohlala.
Thanks for trying to help me sort this out evilredduckie. I never thought of trying the other hosted sites. Does anyone else have trouble getting into the sites that I mentioned? Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: OneEyedWillie on 2007 July 25, 10:26:32 I can get on Dour's but not Sherrie's, Ohhlala, provocative pixie, and simply vogue. :/
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: Delphy on 2007 July 25, 12:24:08 Yeah that sounds like a DNS problem rather than a server problem.
Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: keirra on 2007 July 25, 21:48:59 Whatever the reason, I clicked on Doursim and I got in! :D
I also got into the other ones that I couldn't. Title: wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline Post by: RedLove on 2007 July 25, 21:52:00 Can anybody get onto Icedmango's site?
Edit: Nvm its up |