Biopowered - vegetable oil and biodiesel forum
General => Chatter => Topic started by: petep900 on April 25, 2015, 12:25:44 PM
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VOD Downtime 25/04/2015
Paddy will be taking VOD Forum down around 11.00pm tonight to look into issues and make a hard disc copy backup
Service today may be intermittent as things are done in the background
Pete
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Pete I've made this sticky for future use
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You is a STAR Tony - Thanks
Does me head in when it goes down
Getting hold of Paddy can be fun
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I'm locked out of there! Every time I try to log in, I get this.........
You have failed to login within the required number of attempts. You must now wait 0h 15m 0s before you can login again.
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I'm locked out of there! Every time I try to log in, I get this.........
You have failed to login within the required number of attempts. You must now wait 0h 15m 0s before you can login again.
Ye' well they don't want any old riff raff on there.
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Reset you VOD settings Nick
Username - Oilybloke
Password - sent to you on messages here
please note capital and lower case letters
Pete
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Unable to get on the vod.
Access forbidden.
Error 403
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Unable to get on the vod.
Access forbidden.
Error 403
I'm sitting on me boot in Norfolk using an android pad and no probs with the vod here.
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I am in a foreign country, but that's never caused issue before.
Weird
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Fine for me also
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VOD Down 10/08/2016
Aware of this.
Paddy informed
Will update
Pete
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Appears to be back up at 00.50
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I'm getting an error 403 forbidden ,am in Spain ,it worked the first day then went off ,how do I reset my vod settings.?
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I'm getting an error 403 forbidden ,am in Spain ,it worked the first day then went off ,how do I reset my vod settings.?
Send Pete a personal message via here, he will know the answer
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Thanks for that have sent Pete message and received reply Terry
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Can't reach VOD tonight. Is it just me?
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Fine for me.
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No problem for me.
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I can't access VOD today, is there a problem?
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I can't access VOD today, is there a problem?
Same for me.... SQL Error:144 - Table './pwhetman_mybbforum/mybbforum_sessions' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed
Can't rely on anything these days :)
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I can't get vod today either.
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It was ok this morning.
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It's down for me. Reporting a SQL query error
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Me neither, must be catching
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It was that picture of Pete that did it...
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The main site is up, just the forum if off line, due to database problems by the looks of it.
How ironic that we get one forum back just in time for another to crash
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at least one of them is up.
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Monday 20 Nov.
Aware of account suspended message
Have texted paddy for info
Pete
07513014349
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Appears Paddy's main business site is also down, same message
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Paddy is aware
No immediate solution
Working on it.....
Pete
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I thought for a moment I'd been suspended for being overtyred!
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Just had a look at vod,the headline is coming up so its on the way.But that's all.
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All fixed thanks to some midnight oil burning by Paddy.
Apparently some naughty people tried to break it.
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VOD out of bandwidth already, 8 days before the end of the month!
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Its all that fecking spam Chug!!
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It's only the 16th and VOD bandwidth is exceeded yet again.
What's going on?
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Its beyond a joke now.
If VOD wants more bandwidth there is more than me willing to put a few squid in the pot.
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Please refer to post #34
I don't see any spam on here. Are there better filters, more active mods...I don't get what's going on with the other channel. What is Paddy buying in to?
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I suspect the arrangements on here are different to the VOD (not that I know how new members are vetted on the VOD).
Here the system requires people to answer 3 simple questions to prove they're not a robot and have some knowledge of veg or bio (even if they don't the answers can easily be gleaned from the wiki).
They are then held in a que to be approved by admin who usually check user name and email & IP address on the stop forum spam website. If they are listed thereon they get nuked. I have to say we haven't had any new applicants for very many months.
Re the VOD, I don't think it's a matter of money. It was confirmed some while ago that Paddy makes a small profit from the adverts and commercial links he has in place and since that time, following grumbles from members (one of which was me), he's not requested any further contributions. Don't know if he still does, but he used to run other businesses from the same platform so it could be those that are consuming band width. I'm not an expert, so don't put too much store in the preceding.
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The 14th this time - seems to be getting early into each month. I wonder what is using the bandwidth allocation because surely it can't be the forum (unless there is a problem?).
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His own website does not work either, so I don’t think he is throttling the forum bandwidth.
Maybe an email asking him whats going on?
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Wasn't it the 14th when I estimated the VOD would be down? There is little point in keeping it going if it continues like this, quite a few don't realise that this forum exists, so the poor members that try to access vod just get totally confused.
I spoke to Pete at the bbb re having threads on vod lasting at least 4 days (even without reply) as per this forum, which seems to be a big improvement. However with the present vod problem there seems little point in trying to improve things!
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I think Paddy would do well to inform the members next time it's up and running as to why it's only available for a few days a month. A bit of honesty would not go amiss. I've all but given up on it now.
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Should this forum change it's focus slightly & include more WVO info? That, & advertising the fact this is the best forum for BD & WVO matters, would pretty much eliminate VOD's reason for being.
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We've never tried to be VOD or indeed take over from it - more work alongside to formalise and collate a lot of information just being passed about by word of mouth. WVO discussion is of course welcome here and there are parts of the forum for it already IE "Filter Rigs" - if you think that we're missing a board topic we can definitely add it if it'll be useful or more inclusive.
VOD has/had a lot of personal community going on that are very attached to VOD in particular, so I can't see them all migrating anytime soon.
A lot of the banter/chat seems to be taken over by Facebook these days as well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/515124825178995
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I think someone needs to offer to take over the running of the forum for paddy
seams like he's not interested anymore anyway
everyone will leave and it'll die if it keeps going offline
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I think someone needs to offer to take over the running of the forum for paddy
seams like he's not interested anymore anyway
everyone will leave and it'll die if it keeps going offline
That is what I am going to do when it comes back onlione. I don't mind forking out a few quid to keep it running. It may be hard for Paddy to seperate the forum as it was a part of his business...
For the sake of clarity, I don't want it as a money making thing and unless it costs lots of money to keep going I will fork out for the running of it and also get rid of all ads as I hate them.
But its up to Passy really, its his thing.
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it should cost naff all to run
hate the adds too!
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I don't see any ads on VOD - https://getadblock.com/
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I dont see advertisements either.
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VOD is gone again.
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16th, 14th, 11th, it's getting earlier every month. Whatever is using the bandwidth up is increasing.
It doesn't just affect the VOD forum either but the whole of Paddy's site. Surely that's a bigger problem for him?
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I don't think he runs his business from the site any more.
The online store has nothing for sale and the links for micro brewery and solar power don't work so I'm not sure of the sites purpose now other than maybe generating a small income from the ads?
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It's highly likely some aspect of the hosting has been hacked and is used to serve images or other content to a botnet. If that gets found and fixed it would be OK. But it's not like a hosting provider to not detect this and suspend the site until it has been fixed.
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Hi all, it's redsailor here from the vod forum. I log in to vod every day as the computer is on for other tasks and have been getting a little annoyed by the bandwidth issues. It seems to have just about made 10 days this month before going down as it was ok this morning the 11th. Hopefully can keep up with all the news and events on here.
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Day 11 eh! Not good.
I think more folk will migrate here with all the shit that's happening next door. I'm not sure why it's taken some so long though??
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Hi all, it's redsailor here from the vod forum. I log in to vod every day as the computer is on for other tasks and have been getting a little annoyed by the bandwidth issues. It seems to have just about made 10 days this month before going down as it was ok this morning the 11th. Hopefully can keep up with all the news and events on here.
Welcome, Ian.
It's the same bunch of idiots on here, so you'll feel right at home!
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Welcome, Ian.
It's the same bunch of idiots on here, so you'll feel right at home!
Oi! I'm not one of your average bunch of idiots, I'm a 24 carrot nutter.
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Correct Jim, you are a one off, lets say a special one. So special in fact that Womble had lots planned for you at the bbb then you didn't turn up!
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I tried sending Paddy an email through the forum email option and haven't received anything back. Might try ringing the number on the website when it comes back up.
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vod is back. for now anyway.
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I tried sending Paddy an email through the forum email option and haven't received anything back. Might try ringing the number on the website when it comes back up.
Arash you on this?
VOD will be dead soon if it keeps going down... and I quite like it there :-)
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Just had a look on there and it's full of spam again.
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Gone...13 days. 8)
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It’s back on again,don’t know for how long.
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I spole to Stephen Walker yesterday, he has managed to find Paddy's number and has passed details to Pete to try and sort the problem. fingers crossed!
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It's the first of the month and VOD cannot be found on a search (don't even get the 404 error), what's going on ?
On a search for "vegetable oil diesel" biopowered is the top result, not seen that before.
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It's the first of the month and VOD cannot be found on a search (don't even get the 404 error), what's going on ?
On a search for "vegetable oil diesel" biopowered is the top result, not seen that before.
Its OK for me there are no new posts though.
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Try searching for vegetableoildiesel, all one word and it should come up
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Pointless using it now. After 10-15 days it'll go dark for the next 20-15.
It's dead.
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Pointless using it now. After 10-15 days it'll go dark for the next 20-15.
It's dead.
Agreed.
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Pointless using it now. After 10-15 days it'll go dark for the next 20-15.
It's dead.
Agreed.
Its sad that a good forum has wasted away.
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Pointless using it now. After 10-15 days it'll go dark for the next 20-15.
It's dead.
Agreed.
Its sad that a good forum has wasted away.
Agreed, without VOD none of us would have met.
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Strange what's going on with VOD. Only a couple of posts this month and it's already gone. Must be some dark celestial force gobbling up the bandwidth.
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The simplest solution would be to turn on some web statistics (like AWStats) and see what's gobbling all the bandwidth. I suspect in the long-neglect that it's been hacked and is being used to host other content (for phishing, for example).
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There are hardly any posts on there anyway, even when it's working. Seems that people know it is going to switch off at sometime through the month, so no point in posting as when it comes back on the thread/post isn't on anymore and its all been forgotten about.
At least we have this, and as its run by 'ourselves' we will never be in the same position as vod.
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It's a shame, there is a wealth of information and history on the forum that was accessible from google searches. Google will lower their ranking because of the limited accessibility.