Dear vBulletin Forum Community - vBSEO is Suspending Operations

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  1. Alfa1

    Alfa1 Regular Member

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    Can you imagine how 6 year old SEO software can be better and more modern than 6 years of vbSEO updates?
     
  2. ILIA-VBSEO

    ILIA-VBSEO Regular Member

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  3. Autopilot

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    All I can contribute is invest in paper products like tissues and toilet paper. Sad for all involved.
    awww.myemoticons.com_images_humor_poop_crap_hitting_the_fan.gif
     
  4. mdawg

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    It does seem that vbseo is kaput -website down, emails being returned undeliverable, no activity.

    PROBLEM IS - I am running a vbulletin 3.8.7 licensed forum. On this forum I was running vbseo 3.3.2 and all was well. vbseo convinced me to upgrade at least to 3.5.0 PL2 and I finally got 'round to doing it yesterday. Well, as soon as I upgraded the links on the forum stopped being optimized and tables and images stopped loading properly.

    Is there any way to get some support for this issue? I would be happy to revert to 3.3.2 but I am not sure how to do that.
     
  5. rellek

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    In 3.1.0 to 3.3.x, you have to edit ./includes/functions_vbseo_startup.php. In 3.5.0+, you have to edit ./vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_startup.php. Find (quite at the bottom):
    PHP:
    define('VBSEO_UNREG'true);
    if (
    defined('VBSEO_LITE_DEFAULT')){
    define('VBSEO_LITE'true);
    if (
    VBSEO_EXPIRED_MORE)
    define('VBSEO_UNREG_EXPIRED'1);
    Replace with:
    PHP:
    //define('VBSEO_UNREG', true);
    if (defined('VBSEO_LITE_DEFAULT')){}
    //define('VBSEO_LITE', true);
    if (VBSEO_EXPIRED_MORE){}
    //define('VBSEO_UNREG_EXPIRED', 1);
    This should do the trick.


    Via:
    http://www.wewota.de/threads/vbseo-lizenzserver-nicht-erreichbar-vbseo-wiederbeleben.625/
     
  6. Big al

    Big al Regular Member

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    @mdawg. Unfortunately a check from here shows the following message. "
    http://www.vbseo.com is DOWN" I have no idea if it is permanent.
     
  7. Paul M

    Paul M Dr Pepper Addict

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    The domain no longer resolves in DNS.
     
  8. GTB

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    Did they give any warning of this happening? Could be a tempt thing, but doesn't look good.
     
  9. ProSportsForums

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    THANK YOU SO MUCH. This just totally saved my backside. Links are now working.

    However, I am still unable to access my backend admin - doesn't accept my password. Assume there is a check somewhere for that that is separate from everything else.
     
  11. Brandon

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    The only check that I know about is if you update your license key inside the vbseo control panel.
     
  12. vgchat

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    vbseo lite? Never saw that before until now.
     
  13. Joe Ward

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    I hope this isn't the "official" announcement that was coming. Maybe temporary.
     
  14. djbaxter

    djbaxter Regular Member

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    Relax people. Sites go down, just as vB.org and vB.com did a short while ago.

    It's temporary. Probably a server issue because initially it was giving database errors. It will be back.
     
  15. Brandon

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    soon
     
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  16. dandanch

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    Man I'm glad we didn't spend any more money on this product, thanks ILIA :)
     
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  17. Joe Ward

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    This is when we normally blow up Oleg's inbox.

    Andres - if you're following the thread, please let everyone know the status of the server.
     
  18. Paul M

    Paul M Dr Pepper Addict

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    Its a DNS problem, vbseo.com no longer has any responding nameservers - it uses name servers on the crawlability.com domain, crawlability.com has also stopped resolving, and it used its own nameservers.
     
  19. djbaxter

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    Oleg doesn't even work there any more and Andres doesn't work for you. Stop pretending you're his employer. It is being looked into.
     
  20. djbaxter

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    Yes but that doesn't mean it isn't a server issue. That can happen if the DNS server (BIND or whatever) crashes, as I'm sure you know.

    Initially the error message was about a database crash (for almost 24 hours). The DNS error appeared this morning. To me, that suggests a server issue starting with the database crash which spread so that other services ran out of resources and also crashed.
     

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