FeaturePrice Crash

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 2:31 am

OK, so which of you disgruntled ex-FP-er's trashed my FeaturePrice server? C'mon, 'fess up!

Just kidding, of course. Here's part of an email I received this morning:

As your website is now inaccessible you of course wish to receive an explanation. (ed. Well, yeah! That would be nice...) Please find the following summary of unlucky events:

@ Approx. 0530hrs: On the 4th September your UNIX server was working properly.

@ Approx. 0535hrs: We started everyday's backup process via a remote backup server. The backup harddrive will is directly connected to the UNIX server for this purpose.

@ Approx. 0540hrs: A massive script abuse by a customer's script that causes the Operating System to behave randomly leads to an incorrect procedure when writing the partition tables. This ultimately resulted in a corruption of the file structure and integrity of the backup and server's drives, causing a major loss of data on both drives.

@ Approx. 0545hrs: Affected machine is unplugged and Feature Price immediately begins investigations on what the consequences of this overload and data loss are.

@ Approx. 0555hrs: Featureprice begings attempts to restore lost data and rescure lost partitions.

@ Approx. 0620hrs: After any and all restore attempts have been deemed unsuccessful and common restore practices are useless, we must regretfully acknowledge that unfortunately all data has been lost and is not avilable in backed up areas since the backup has been destroyed as well during the unpredictable server abuse.

@ Approx. 0700hrs; The UNIX server has been officially declared "inoperable". Feature Price restores the operating system and re-initates client hosting.

The good news is that my site will be rehosted on a new P4 server that will be limited to only 125 clients (supposedly a very low count). I only had some pics and vids uploaded, so it's not like I lost anything that's irreplaceable.

The bad news is that my vids are no longer available. Of course, I disabled all links a couple of months ago, but now the vids really are offline.

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Carpe Felis! >^,,^<

XenoDrake · Post by **XenoDrake** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 3:07 am

i couldent make heads or tails of what you just said, but damn it sounded bad..... sorry to hear it. hope whatever it is get fixed/replaced/payed for....

~XenoDrake

Machine · Post by **Machine** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 11:20 am

DIE MOTHERFUCKERS DIE!!!!

DIE FROM MY SERVER ABUSE!!!

DIE!!!!

:Looks over at Adiamante: 8)

shinto · Post by **shinto** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 5:30 pm

im sorry you lost me on the word Ok. . . . . .. im confused.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 5:47 pm

I did it..I'm quilting, don't hurt me!

Nah...I know a little about Unix systems and I have to say that this is really serious. Unix systems don't get messed up this bad, never in my life have I heard this much data damage in Unix system.

What the hell were those guys doing, they should have a connection software that monitors and exempts too many users and connectins to the system. Unix is suppose to be damn stable!

From the looks of that report*, it seemed that the server was "flooded." It has to be a virus/worm/trojan thing. Some poor idiot's computers were hijacked and their computers became a vesel for slaming into the Unix server. Sounds similiar, eh?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 6:50 pm

Actually it was most likely a server side script. Not sure exactly what kind. I doubt it was DoS attack :\ . The CPU probably spent more time trying to work with the script(which probably was looping), then it was backing up data and wham the data gets corrupted :\ Though that sounds like a shitty OS. How a script could cause them to lose all there stuff. I mean, don't they put restictions on these users ;\

~klinky

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 3:28 am

XenoDrake wrote:i couldent make heads or tails of what you just said, but damn it sounded bad..... sorry to hear it. hope whatever it is get fixed/replaced/payed for

Nah, don't feel bad. My site's been under re-construction for awhile. I'm glad this happened before I uploaded anything new. All I lost were the hours it takes to upload vids. And the equipment is theirs, the Web hoster's, not mine. I just rent a tiny piece of it.

shinto wrote:im sorry you lost me on the word Ok. . . . . .. im confused.

The technical stuff is only mildly interesting. It's as if your PC's hard drive were corrupted; i.e. physically usable, but only after you wipe it and start over. The unlucky part is that the backup data was trashed, too.

The more interesting thing is that FeaturePrice (the Web hoster) has a long and illustrious history here at amv-dot-org. You may not have been here long enough to know that, but it's the reason Machine is so excited.

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mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 1:11 pm

We tried to warn you guys about FP! They are evil!!!

(Unless you are robbing them blind or course...

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shinto · Post by **shinto** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 2:17 pm

feature price is a webserver? ah i thought it was some kind of american store (like bestbuy or wall mart or sumthin like that)

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 2:21 pm

klinky wrote:Actually it was most likely a server side script. Not sure exactly what kind. I doubt it was DoS attack :\ . The CPU probably spent more time trying to work with the script(which probably was looping), then it was backing up data and wham the data gets corrupted :\ Though that sounds like a shitty OS. How a script could cause them to lose all there stuff. I mean, don't they put restictions on these users ;\

~klinky

It's not the OS. It's horrible misconfiguration on the administrator's part.

You're right -- an untrusted script shouldn't EVER have the capability to do something like this. The fact that it DID tells me that FeaturePrice does not know how to run any sort of UNIX system correctly. (Ten bucks says that they were running Apache as root. Dumbasses.)