BHW Keeps going down?

[pokerjk]

Over the past week BHW forum does not always work for me. It says bad DNS settings or alike. It did this morning for me for hours (GMT).

Is anyone else experiencing issues accessing http://www.blackhatworld.com

[healzer]

same here.............

[drac313]

they need to get a dedi.

[JakeW420]

Its going down alot for me aswell, im from chester uk aswell so coincidence?

[Gruzin]

we allready know that they are making some changes no calm down bhw never dies

[cataratas]

Was down for me this morning and funnily enough I'm near Chester too!

[pokerjk]

we allready know that they are making some changes no calm down bhw never dies

I never said it was, I was asking if anyone else was experiencing the same issues.

Two people from Chester... small world.

[sonobby1]

Ive just dropped my son off at his new house just around the corner from Chester university, (starts uni tomorrow) small world hehe

[unselfishfan]

It goes down late at night, every night, and I'm in TEXAS...

[kaif0346]

hey I am facing its down for me so many time in the week as well some time it says URL is not working and some time databass error...

[TNphoneman]

there's a new owner guys that probably changing hosting. Have a little patience.

[Theodore]

BHW gets attacked on a regular basis from DDOS and all sorts it wouldnt matter if they upgraded there hosting it would still go down. Also i would think a site this large with the amount of members posting and browsing its already on a dedi.

[pokerjk]

BHW gets attacked on a regular basis from DDOS and all sorts it wouldnt matter if they upgraded there hosting it would still go down. Also i would think a site this large with the amount of members posting and browsing its already on a dedi.

I thought this... I wouldn't like to host BHW on my server.

Ive just dropped my son off at his new house just around the corner from Chester university, (starts uni tomorrow) small world hehe

I was at the University last year and stayed here. Is one of the nicer cities in the UK. Whats he studying? Didn't think they did a black hat course there

[LukesDad]

I'm from germany and BHW was down here too. I never ever heard of chester, so why do I have to suffer too? ;-)
BTW, making the error page a sales page is just genius!

[hakemsaeed]

I'm from germany and BHW was down here too. I never ever heard of chester, so why do I have to suffer too? ;-)
BTW, making the error page a sales page is just genius!

i thought someone hacked it, and put his sales page.

[nesterdwarf]

There is a certain amount of irony in the fact that all the people lamenting about BHW going down are regular (read non-paying) users...

Just saying...

ND

[pokerjk]

There is a certain amount of irony in the fact that all the people lamenting about BHW going down are regular (read non-paying) users...

Just saying...

ND

Not lamenting, making the mods aware that this is happening. This part of the forum is for feedback correct?

[Hostwinds]

Maybe they need more reliable hosting

If anyone who reads this is in charge of hosting decisions for blackhatworld, drop me a line, I would love the opportunity to help out a forum that is near and dear to my heart

[JohnnyRabbit]

Been happening more recently

[dragonlube]

it happens every now and then , nothing new

[WROMERO]

It was down for me last night. I thought it was hacked. There was a link to a Landing Page.

[clyde]

there's a new owner guys that probably changing hosting. Have a little patience.

Mind enligtening us? Who's the new owner?

Latest owner is Damien right. I think he made a post just recently about BHW under a DOS attack.

[SaraJ]

When it's down I view the cached versions of pages in the Google results. You can still get alot of reading done on here without worrying about whether it's up or not.

[alexking]

Same here, it seems to be going down in the late night, early morning hours here in Toronto

[cricket1]

Yeah, I've experienced the same in the last days. I was so mad and kept refreshing the page.

[Dan Da Man]

Is this forum going to shit or what? Every day it is going out! Getting quite annoying. I think I might just have to move my way back to Digital Point hashaha

[GMac222]

Yeah going down here as well, and funnily....I'm near Chester as well LOL Small world.

[greyhatdude]

Maybe they need more reliable hosting

If anyone who reads this is in charge of hosting decisions for blackhatworld, drop me a line, I would love the opportunity to help out a forum that is near and dear to my heart

They use volumedrive right now, according to centralops.net. I wonder if switching to iweb would help:
iweb.com/managed-hosting/security-firewall/ddos-protection/

[macdonjo3]

they need to get a dedi.

There's a fuck load more than that that has tone added.
I've been in constant contact with one of the owners and we are getting this all fixed. There's a meeting on wednesday to discuss this.

[orzyman]

well i thought i was the only person but naa am not

[luccha]

Its getting frequent these days. Downtime.

[audhora]

same here............OP. I did find it down many times over the past 2/3 days.