od[force] taken a beating... no ETA

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Hi all,

Unfortunately od.net has taken our severe, seemling annual, beating by some hackers and our gracious web admin is MIA over the holidays. We hope that we can both restore service and find a new virtual home for odforce in the near future. We have the actual data in hand but the Apache server portion is apparently compromised. Please be patient and we'll do our level best to get going again.

Thanks!
The od ogres.


PS. If anyone has suggestions for a good (and reasonable) server that could host odforce, please feel free to help. You can write to me (jiversen(please_no_spam)@d2.com) or Marc (march(please_no_spam)@imageworks.com).
Jason Iversen, Technology Supervisor & FX Pipeline/R+D Lead @ Weta FX
also, http://www.odforce.net [www.odforce.net]
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Thanks for the heads up Jason.
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Hey Jason
Sorry to hear what happened to odforce . Maybe you should give the people some more information on whats needed to host odforce ( webspace , traffic … ). And if you need some donations to pay the bills for a proper host ask for it . I am more then willing to contribute some money to get odforce up and running again and some people on the irc chan said the same.

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Hi Jason,

I already wrote you about hosting.. and my help is for you if I can contribute to keep odForce up and running.

cheers.
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Thanks all who replied to us - we very much appreciate all the warm response.

We have the physical machine sitting with us and we're going to spend a few days trying to get the data pushed onto a new server. I hope that we can get at least the forum up and running within the week.

Please check back often
Jason Iversen, Technology Supervisor & FX Pipeline/R+D Lead @ Weta FX
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Cheking every day ops:
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Only one time a day ??? :shock:

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guess what.. its my home page in my firefox… therefore I “check” it so many times a day .. first times i got it offline i tought my ISP was down.. figure..

cheers..
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I am so sorry to hear that ..
od.net is my favourite houdini website . although is not my homepage of ie , ops: but i check it everyday ! hope it recover soon.
best regards .
faithfully odforcer xsix
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Hey all

As Jason said, thanks for all the support and offers of support . Here's a little update for you:
We've finally managed to sign up with a host and are in the process of getting our new home setup. I should be getting all the data this weekend off the old server, so hopefully we'll be up and running early next week.

Thanks
Marc
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cool.. nice to ear.. cant wait to see you back online then.

cheers.
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Excellent. Well done guys. Feelin a bit lost without oddy. :cry:
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The Odforce forum appears to functional again!
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Wow… that was quick Peter .

Yes indeed, the forum is back online. We'll be bringing the rest of the site back up as the week goes by. There's alot of stuff to upload and check.

Thanks
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Well, I had a cron job that attempted to load the site every 10 seconds. Then, when successful, a loud hooting klaxon sounded and I came running.

Actually, I accidentally clicked the link in Firefox and it worked )
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Actually, I accidentally clicked the link in Firefox and it worked

Sure… “actually” .. I get it.

nudge nudge, wink wink.
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errr… It's down again! :?


Edit:

sorry I went here http://www.odforce.net/index.php [odforce.net] ops:
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Woo!
Marc managed to get the OdWiki up and running again! Please head directly for: http://www.odforce.net/wiki [odforce.net]
Jason Iversen, Technology Supervisor & FX Pipeline/R+D Lead @ Weta FX
also, http://www.odforce.net [www.odforce.net]
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