some sites have been up for awhile (cliphunter)

I would think they are worried about making sure the whole is patched before bringing anything online, including the main page.

message from RCN for those who are affedted:

I panic if my site is down for more than a minute. I can only imagine the horror some people are going through right now.

Sending good vibes to restore everything back to normal.

Mail from rcn to customers:

We are writing this letter to inform you that a very targeted
malicious attack took place on our network this morning at 6AM EST.
As a result, most of our server operating systems have been corrupted
resulting in the current downtime. However, we have access to all
backups and have already figured out a strategy for bringing your
servers back up, and have all hands on deck working to restore
service. We will continue sending progress updates, and will be
notifying you personally once your service is restored. We would like
to thank everyone for being so understanding and patient as we work to
bring everything back to normal.

We have updated the call in number to go to cell phones so if you are
calling into the support line: 866-726-4678 you should be reaching
someone most of the time.

If not please wait 5 mins and try again.

Currently we have backups for the majority of the content and are
working to finalize the restore process. At which point we will be able
to provide more accurate ETAs on service restoration.

Thank you,
Moisey Uretsky
President
Reality Check Network

where did you get that message? They email it to you? I'd check my mail, but it's nuked along with the server :disgust

probably not using an email address hosted by rcn - i got the email and i use my isp email address

what he said

the email announcement was sent from a gmail account

I wonder if any cardholder data was compromised?

Imagine how much data needs to be restored for xvideos.com

that must be several terabytes of flv files

I'm sure they have well over 100 servers just for them.

Ugh FML...this really sucks :(

Sorry to all our affiliates...it's out of our hands obviously.

it's not out of your hands since you own the domains but guess you didn't have an off-site backup with another online company.

We do keep off-site backups but they only backup once per month (in case of something catastrophic like RCN blows up) and it's not as easy as flicking a switch to get them running. We're better off waiting for RCN.

I'm seeing a lot of these sites/domains going nowhere, you should set something up and redirect your domains. Seems crazy to just leave your sites/domains dead for this amount of time.

Just wanted to add, as mentioned, do you think its a good idea to host a legit site on a server hosting illegal tubes, seems risky these days considering.

The consequences will never be the same.

Wonder if this has exposed any user data/customer data, credit card data, etc. That would be uber shitty.

Yeah between 300 - 400 servers for hosting those clips only

WTF? Are you kidding? What are so many servers for?

Are they the next google? :helpme

you can't cause as soon as switch the dns it will start propagating to another server, can take 2 days for then when it's restored it will take just as long to switch back so instead of 24 to 36 hours downtime you end up doubling it.

dis is so year 2000. respectable hosts shouldn't go down like this now-days. not to mention dis is why with my host i have redundancy to all my shizz on the cloud, if my shits in ny goes down it autofails to my servers located in amsterdam, my host has multiple datacenters.

if yer shits is critical to your livlihoods like mine host it wit established professionals

say what you want but my shitz up!

:pimp

If i am not wrong dns update can be drastically speed up if you set very low TTL in your dns records.

so they have to reconfigure every single server and email account for every single client of theirs? that will take months! I am so fucked here.

I'm serious, you really need that many servers to host their enormous sites

They have xvideos, xnxx.com and many other sites.

Several of them are in alexa top 1000 and xvideos is around #50 site of the world

then it's worthless. you should be backing up to a company online that can turn you back on at the flick of a switch :thumbsup

Sounds really serious, stuff like that makes me think...

what the shit? That shit is the shit. i'm not shitting you. No shit!

Gonna start calling you Bad Ass Brad. If you would do that for another company, it speaks volumes of how excellent your own support is. :2 cents:

Imagine how worried they would have to be if they actually paid for all of those videos. :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Yep no worries for them. Even if they have to start from scratch, their uploaders will get everything back in no time.

Nigga please. It's a PR stunt to woo the resident sheep and possibly lure the current RCN clients in.

Get real, no one is flying any techs anywhere.

Like, Whoa.

Shit, fml

Yes, you're right. Thats why I always use a low TTL and hosted DNS. DNSMadeEasy.com is awesome!

To those that are saying they should have one flip backup hosts and all of that other BS.

Stop trolling.

These companies are not Bank of America.

This has happened exactly once. One or two days of down time costs a lot less than redundant hosting.

Get real. Off-site backups is all you need. If things go past 48 hours then they can look into having another company bring them back up from a backup.

By the sounds of it I've experienced more downtime with Gmail and Facebook than RCN customers. If those companies can survive it, RCN customers can.

Perspective, people, perspective.

You are correct ... once propagated, you set them back to a default value.

Did you guys backtrace the hacker?
Feel free to leave that cocksuckers xvideos.com site down as long as possible.

Hey, quote this, its rare for me!


Fuck you, asshole. I dare you to say that to my face as I have been boxing for nine months.

While you may have no character or respect for others, that doesn't give you the right to judge mine. PR stunts are for pussies with time on their hands. I leave more business in my inbox due to time constraints than most competitors have altogether.

That said, while I myself would never expect a similar offer if I was in that situation, I can imagine their horror and sympathize enough with the problem and its implications where yes, I would drop things to help.

I might not be the richest guy in the room but I work hard, sleep well at night.. and have tremendous karma from a lot of good deeds.

Brad

P.S. - I advised an RCN customer earlier to wait it out rather than me whore it out - by their own admission, stellar service for years already. If I knew the owner, I would have called already to ask in person and off the boards.

I LOL'd :1orglaugh

and my email is down:disgust

well put.

Very well put!

Brad

should have used a usb stick

What means boxing?You didn't said fuck off to anyone for nine months? :)

wake me when its back

whoops :Oh crap

I am very much against the death penalty... But hackers..... Aaaaargh!
I would like to make an exception for them! ;)

So whats the status now, I see Pichunter is back up.