Anybody know what happened to lancers

Roo Avery

Is it still down?

Dark_Angel

Still down for me, but I am getting PHP errors across it now =/.

FriendlyFire

Seems like they’ve got Joomla running again. At least it means they got hosting and domain back in shape

Roo Avery

This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

The latest chapter in the Lancers Reactor saga.

Sion

“Saga”? Is that the diplomatic word for “mess” these days?

Zap

Hehe, I think of it more traditionally.

When the Vikings of old started the internet, they used to put dead websites into longboats and fire flaming arrows into them to to send them from one world to the next!

Now THAT, is a saga

Chili

The terminology should be: like a Yo Yo

Up, down, up, down, up, down, up, dooowwwnn…… (again)

Zap

Well i hope they get it sorted soon, tbh its a real shame what’s been happening to it, and now it looks like its down again cos someone “forgot to put another fifty pence in the meter”

Bejaymac

What TLR’s admin haven’t said is that the hack attack wasn’t your run of the mill attack, someone hijacked 3 servers, 1 in the UK, 1 in the US & the 3rd in russia, filled them with bots and flooded TLR on a massive scale, we’re talking terabits of bandwidth gone in seconds.

I’m not sure if their still being attacked as neither Turion nor Eraser have been on TS since the site went back down.

Zap

Can only hope not, I hate to see any website be attacked this way Especially one that is such a widely recognised resource.

Wolfie

its a shame attacking a site like that!

Roo Avery

It is a shame, and I feel terribly sorry for BP and Eraser. They have gone through a lot recently, and things just are not working out for them.

Sion

Turion seems to be taking a lot of flack regarding the whole ordeal (a small portion of which I think is somewhat deserved, relating to things that happened a while back with the relaunching of the site’s relaunch), even though this latest spat of nonsense has been entirely outside of his control.

I’ve heard a few people scoff at the idea of “upstart” sites like this one trying to steal a bit of TLR’s pie in its moment of weakness, but personally I think these past few months have highlighted very clearly why having all of our eggs (or most of them, at any rate) in a single basket isn’t just a bad idea - it’s a terrible idea, and one that has at this point probably damaged the community as a whole more than the untimely death of the global server.

Forsaken

Is anyone able to get onto Lancers? Ive been going to www.lancersreactor.com…. I get nothing but a “downtime message”

FriendlyFire

They’re still working on it I believe.

Forsaken

ok thanks. I was worried the final nail was driven into the coffin.

Bejaymac

Nope, we’re still here ;D, but this time the site will not be opened to the public until it’s finished, and we’re looking at the end of march for that depending on how quickly we get the old sites DB disks from Louva-Deus.

HunterKiller

What’s going on over there now???
New fourm or, has the other one been hijacked?

HK

CatDog

The old one is gone , the new one is under new managment cough .

Grey_Wolf

@HunterKiller:

What’s going on over there now???
New fourm or, has the other one been hijacked?

HK

A Very Long Drama was played out over there in the last two weeks M8, Basically it’s never going to be what it was again.

@CatDog:

The old one is gone , the new one is under new managment cough .

Way to Go CatDog, I was going to be a lot less diplomatic about it and you saved me. Thanks…

Let me just say I am pointing anyone that will listen here instead of Lancers Reactor. For now I consider The Lancers Reactor a fond memory, and what is there doesn’t deserve the same name. That might change someday, but they will have to earn it back now.