We are back - sort of

[pnegyesi]

AutoPuzzles will be stopped for maintenance tomorrow around 7 PM CET (around 6 PM UK time, 1 PM EST etc.). If everything goes smoothly it will be just an hour or so.

[Oguerrerob]

I've been revisiting the Solved Section, year per year, searching for an old puzzle car. And there's a lot of puzzles without the original (head) picture. It would be nice to re-post them. I know it's a hard work to do, but everyone could help. Autopuzzles.com has had become a reference, because of the photos and pictures despite the info on every car. So, I think this site deserves this hard work.

Anyway, thanks to all that are involved into this.

                                                      OGuerreroB

[Paul Jaray]

I've been revisiting the Solved Section, year per year, searching for an old puzzle car. And there's a lot of puzzles without the original (head) picture. It would be nice to re-post them. I know it's a hard work to do, but everyone could help. Autopuzzles.com has had become a reference, because of the photos and pictures despite the info on every car. So, I think this site deserves this hard work.

Anyway, thanks to all that are involved into this.

                                                      OGuerreroB

I definetly agree.
I restored many of them, and other members did the same too.
Please, keep pointing out the ones who need the pictures back and we'll try to fix them all.

[Oguerrerob]

Thank you, but I didn't mean an specific puzzle but generally, Maybe if asking the puzzlers to contribute could it be easier

[Otto Puzzell]

Back before we had thumbnails in the indexes, I started collecting all of the solved puzzles, and cataloging them, with pictures, for a now abandoned 'solved puzzles index with thumbnails' thread. I have about 2,000 of them left that I have not reloaded. I'll try to set aside some time each weekend to upload more.

[Otto Puzzell]

OK - 2006 is done (easy, as most of the puzzles were my own). I'll keep going on subsequent years.

[Oguerrerob]

Thank You!!

[nicanary]

Thanks to Pal for restoring the site again after yesterday's crash. I thought we'd got a repeat of 2014's disaster!

[Oguerrerob]

 

[Wendax]

 

[pnegyesi]

actually it was the database server which crashed. I was very busy with a classic car meeting, my brother was out of town - that's whyt it took so long to get it up and running again. Sorry

[Allan L]

Was there a general problem about an hour ago or was it just that I was singled out to be "banned from the Forum" at that time?
All seems normal now, but I see a couple of interlopers including one who has managed to start a thread with a post, but whose post count is still zero.

[nicanary]

Was there a general problem about an hour ago or was it just that I was singled out to be "banned from the Forum" at that time?
All seems normal now, but I see a couple of interlopers including one who has managed to start a thread with a post, but whose post count is still zero.

It's all sorted now. Someone chanced his arm and banned several members, he somehow managed to infiltrate the admin files.

Funnily enough, Carnut and I recently discussed the fact that we still have no admin expert to deal with this sort of thing, and maybe enhance our security.

[nicanary]

We are back! I don't know about everybody else, but both myself and carnut were unable to connect with the site today. Everything seems to be back to normal.

If anybody took action to sort out the problem, thank you.

[Oguerrerob]

It's back! Thanks to Paul Jaray, and who else is involved.

[pnegyesi]

Yes, my brother made a small error and all the sites he's hosting were down. Sorry about that

[pnegyesi]

Good morning fellow AutoPuzzle members! The site has been down for the last few hours, because of a technical error on our (maintenance) side.  So sorry, will try to be more careful in the future with these things.

[kwgibbs]

Thank You for getting it back,Im very grateful!

[Oguerrerob]

Great to have it back! Thanks to all involved in

[oko94]

Thanks ! I thought the site had been hacked but fortunately it was less serious than that.

[Allan L]

Thanks ! I thought the site had been hacked but fortunately it was less serious than that.

Yes I got a message which implied some sort of security level was needed to get here but did not tell me what it should be.

[nicanary]

My daughter now works at a largish digital marketing company and knows colleagues who are IT highbrows - they're actually web developers at her office. She thinks one of them might be interested in being a systems administrator, something we've discussed before.

It's all mumbo-jumbo to me. She says we would need admin log-ins for the back end. From what I've told her, she thinks our site is pretty well ancient in format. She needs to know what web system is being used, what log-in details and what work need doing to bring the site up to date and for the forseeable future.

If the cost is going to be only $20/30 per month (see Pal's previous thread in 2016) I reckon we could pay the guy a whole year's cover in advance by splitting it between the owners/editors.

[Carnut]

Not sure really.
Pal's brother seems to have a good handle on it and always sorts things out when they go wrong.
Not sure I'd like to change the arrangement...

[pnegyesi]

Let me bring my brother into this. He's just planning to move AP to a new server and due to a miscommunication on my part, the first step has already gone wrong (as you have already seen ).

[nicanary]

I was unable to connect again today for several hours. Everything is back to normal now - thanks to whoever arranged this!