One fine day I decided to do some serious updating of a forum/directory site, adding about 90 links to the directory, plugins to the forum, deleting the old no longer used copy of phpbb... and then I realized I had installed the directory to the same database as the phpbb I just deleted. At the time I had no recent backup and had to ask my host to restore the database. Unfortunately, their backup had been taken before I did all that work, so I had to redo everything.
Actually not too bad, we are a boring bunch. Sponsors addresses & how far they paid in advance type stuff. There were a few threads regarding favorite adult beverages. A section regarding the relative merits of how often to back up the database, I have the geeks in a special group to help on those things that can see that stuff and not bother the normal people.
Being new to the whole vBulletin scene (after about 8 years of running small phpbb boards) I was looking around vbulletin.org and other sites for some addons to improve my sports related websites. After about three hours of template changes, mod/hack installing, and permission set ups, i had changed the settings on one thing and everyone could see the admin section where we talked about potential bannings, warnings, infractions, what we were going to change, passwords to some hidden boards (which had become public) and so on. It took about two hours to realise the mistake and fair enough I had to go through and change passwords for those forums that people had bookmarked etc and yeah had alot of explaining to do to members and co.
I accidentally a whole forum. Is this dangerous? I have no idea what the hell I did, but every single post showed up as if it was by me, everyone had my permissions, everyone could edit my posts. Ah yes, and "unregistered" showed up under who's online with a uid of zero. They called it "DarknessChan". It was funny about 3 days after I fixed it by restoring a backup.
Yep, I've done that a few times. I've run queries without thinking about how intensive they would be and then watched my server loads go up and up and up.... but, at least I know the server won't crash when it reaches a load of 450.
Had to close my forum for a few months due to personal reasons...pretty much lost all my members, still to this day.
Kevinl, there was no one who could run the site for you while you were away? Sorry that happened to you, I hope it recovers eventually.
I am sure my mods could have handled it. But no one wanted to help out on the bills :lol: Long story short...I was out on medical leave and I had a ton of money going out and none coming in for a few months. So I asked if anyone wanted to chip in and everyone said no...say I said screw you and closed the place for a while haha it was obvious people liked the place since most lived there 24/7 but I guess that was the extend of how far they would go...Oh well. I should have never opened the same community again and just started fresh with something else. You live and learn.
Yeah, Kevin that's a real bummer. I would be devastated if that happened. As you said though, you live and learn.
