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Working on it.

It seems to be a problem related to a domain called hostgo.com, which is down, and somehow causing timeouts in PHP. I have no idea whatsoever how our site may be tied to hostgo, so once that mystery is solved, hopefully we're up to speed again.
 
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Still working on it. It appears one of the mods was either deliberately or accidentally 'damaged' causing these problems. The issue is that when I turn off all the mods system-wide, the problem is fixed. When I turn them all off individually, the problem remains. These, as far as I'm aware, are two different paths to the same goal.

We're going to be a bit wonky around here until I figure it out. No hacks whatsoever are going to be working, even though I have to wonder if it's something inside the plug-in system, that isn't a hack, that is the source of the headache.

Basically, something has been inserted into the site that makes it try to connect to 64.62.164.98, which is constantinople.hostgo.com, which is a relatively well documented spam site, a lot. By a lot, I mean, a lot a lot. That site is firewalled against us, which means we end up timing out on those attempts creating a black hole of PHP hell which sucks into a space and time fold that makes 7-8 minutes of nothing report as 60.5 second load times.

Moral of the story? I hate spammers almost as much as I hate computers. I can't live without the latter, but I can without the former -- so I propose that we legalize human hunting (only of approved targets of course), and we try to replace pit bulls with spammers and related vermin in the dog fighting culture. Dog fighting makes me sick -- but give a couple spammers shivs and a garbage can lid shield, and I'm all about watching that action.
 
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Dryden said:
Any chance it was a hack through one of the advertisers?
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Anything is possible at this point. As things stand, I still haven't figured out why and where the site is being told to hit hostgo.com, or whatever that was.

Now, BP and RP are hosted on the same machine, are both the same versions of vBulletin, and run many (but not all) of the same mods. RP has run BP's ads for a while. So whether it's a mod that's been exploited, or an ad that went bad -- it does seem odd that all these problems have been on BP, and not RP.

Which makes me wonder if repairing the database tables might make a difference. Probably not.

Color me perplexed. I just hope the mods aren't offline long, as basically every incoming link to BP is now broken.
 
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