WGA Server outage

[kbraband]

Thanks, Alan! I received several emails from WGA members and I assured them you were on the case. Thanks for your efforts to get things working again.

[arffer]

Sorry about the extended outage on the WGA server. We were hacked again… took me a bit, what with normal work, to get the server rebuilt. There are still a few features not working that we hope to have back up asap. Thanks for your patience!

-Alan

[wzbt03]

Thanks!

Just like most things, you don’t know how much you miss them until they are gone.

I realize that you put in a great amount of time in keeping this up and running.

You have my personal thanks!

[Cathunter]

Wow, I was l o s t without any Geocaching forums to check for a couple of days.

A HUGE thanks to Alan & Jeremy for the server space and all the effort involved with keeping us here.

[Paul]

I would be almost be willing to mirror the site on my server but I don’t want to become a target for any hackers.

Paul

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[Buy_The_Tie]

It looks like even though this web page was hacked, it would appear that very little (if any) content was lost. This is a testament to the folks who back this page up. Thank you very much for all of your efforts.

[Ray]

I want to echo the messages sent so far. Alan’s contributions to maintaining this site are very much appreciated by T&tb as well as the rest of our numbers.

Something that cachers might want to keep in mind is that no matter how sophisticated a system may be, there will always be down time. There will always be hackers. The better the system, the more inviting it is to hackers. It is actually a blessing to discover their presence, activity and their portals. Alan has done a good job of this and kept damage to a minimum. As a system user, I have found these interruptions a bit of a nuisance but understand they are part of the package.

Kudos, Alan your recovery has kept the cost of this hacker activity to our community to no more than time and some of us have too much of that on our hands anyway.

[This message has been edited by Trudy & the beast (edited 11-14-2003).]

[The Snail]

Thank you for your hard work to get this site up and running again. I found I really missed the forums and the discussions that take place there.
Thanks again!!

Rick

[arffer]

Just to spread the kudos, I want to thank Jeremy for having discovered the intrusion, and for his great help during the restoral process. Thanks Jeremy!

[pharmteam]

Just want to add our thanks for all the time and work you do keeping this site up and available for the geocaching community.

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