Comments on: PHPBB is a pain

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:23:30 +0000

Im new here at the forum, just wanted to say hello
Samantha

By: Joe Horn ???? » phpBB is a pain!?

Joe Horn ???? » phpBB is a pain!? — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:51:13 +0000

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By: wepouys

wepouys — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:33:02 +0000

Hello !
Sorry to bother you. I found this forum when looking through google for forums to use. I need
to install a forum on my website but I cannot find where it is sold.

Where did you get this one

Thanks for any assistance

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By: The Ar'tak

The Ar'tak — Thu, 26 May 2005 16:59:08 +0000

Simple Machines is an excellent forum service that includes on their administration panel an RSS feed that provides you with the notice that there are updates available, and a package manager that lets you download directly from their site and install it. The ultimate in lazy, perhaps, but since you probably go in the administration section frequently, it makes a lot of sense. Highly recommended.

By: Sencer

Sencer — Wed, 25 May 2005 19:27:39 +0000

> All such projects should be responsible though and offer an
> â€œannounceâ€ mailing list that you can subscribe to and be notified of
> new releases so it is a push and not a pull.

Which is exactly what phpBB has done several months ago (read the announcement from December): http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=249416

By: Alex Bischoff

Alex Bischoff — Wed, 25 May 2005 15:39:20 +0000

PunBB is also rather nice. It's released under the GPL and runs on PHP. And, it outputs valid XHTML to boot :).

By: HTNet

HTNet — Wed, 25 May 2005 12:50:56 +0000

Data Ransom, A Trend?

I was reading this article on hackers locking files and demanding ransom for unlocking it, which somehow eerily reminds me of this recent post I’ve read on Weblog Tools Collection. At the time of the hack, this was how the Pictorialis Forums loo…

By: wirjo

wirjo — Wed, 25 May 2005 10:51:47 +0000

That’s just bad luck. Good luck on your new forums.

By: Ajay D'Souza

Ajay D'Souza — Wed, 25 May 2005 03:41:07 +0000

Why not shift over to Simple Machines Forum?

By: Jason Bainbridge

Jason Bainbridge — Wed, 25 May 2005 01:08:59 +0000

Is that 4GB gzipped (heck you’d want to loook at BZ2 for a dump that big)? Databases backups as a general rule compress extremely well… Also for a database that big I would look at some solution for incremental backups like month to date with a regular full backup.

By: XeroCool

XeroCool — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:39:46 +0000

This is why we all use IPB.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:05:22 +0000

Version 2.0.11

Backups are also very hard to do when the total size of your databases backed up exceeds 4 Gigs.

Last patch was a little over 3 months ago when the awstats scare was rampant. Did not patch for the santy worm.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:55:53 +0000

just to be curious, what version of phpbb2 was it ? did you patch regularly ? I also had a phpbb2 hacked and as a result my server’s 100Mb/s used to ping flood some dude for a couple of hours a few months ago …

By: Jason Bainbridge

Jason Bainbridge — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:33:48 +0000

This is of course possible with any online software that you use it just happens that phpBB is a big target and as it is such a large codebase these days hackers on a semi-regular basis find holes to exploit. You really do need to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade! All such projects should be responsible though and offer an “announce” mailing list that you can subscribe to and be notified of new releases so it is a push and not a pull.

When something does go awry though there is a lot to be said for nightly backups, if your host doesn’t do nightly backups for you then I’d suggest looking elsewhere (you can of course set them up yourself if you have shell or Cpanel access but IMO hosts should do backups for you) or if you are hosting your site yourself setup a job to backup your database(s), gzip them and email them to a gmail account or somewhere, there are plenty of scripts out there that do that.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:32:44 +0000

The best thing that the 2.0 branch has had [since .14] is notice that your install is out-of-date on the Admin Panel. That’s a God-send.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:24:06 +0000

Thanks for the advice, I hadn’t upgraded for months either. Hope you get it all working again

By: Is there a PC Doctor in the house?

Is there a PC Doctor in the house? — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:10:52 +0000

phpBB - Cautionary tale

“The Pictorialis Forums have been hacked beyond repair. The hackers have left a message that says that the data is intact and can be restored but I refuse to ask them to do so or pay them in return. From what I gather, the database was modified …