Forum and website status

[VelvetGeorge]

Welcome back everyone. This last 8 days has been beyond stressful, I apologize for the downtime. Our server was pulled down by the host company due to malware last Thursday.

At the beginning of this crisis I was informed that malicious software had infected the server and was so deeply embedded that they didn't know if any data could be saved. Heartbreaking. 10+ years of online presence, webstore database, forum archive act all seemingly lost. I've learned a lot over the past week, suffice to say. There was no offsite back up, very few layers of security and infrequent security updates. All my own fault 100%.

These issues will all be addressed in the coming weeks, as we rebuild the site and likely bring in some changes.

For now, the forum, metroamp and plexi replicas are online, running on the cleansed server. Over the next several days we will migrate to a new, dedicated server with up to date tech specs, automated backup, extra security and more. Welcome to Metroamp 3.0.
As such, the site may be slow or intermittent. If you can not access, please be patient and know that it should be online gain shortly. When I know the exact day and time of our final migration I will post an announcement with that info and an ETA to be back online for good.

Thanks for all the support during this past week and lets all please appreciate what a wealth of knowledge this community has to offer. It would have been a terrible shame to have lost it. Especially if our forensic evaluation determines that a malicious individual targeted the server with intent to take it down.

Thanks,

george

[VelvetGeorge]

Note to banner advertisers: I'm very sorry for down time and you will be compensated. Please give me a week to get everything back to normal and I will be in touch.

george

[louis]

Good news !

It would have been a big loss for everyone
if all the data would have dissapeared !

All those years of knowledge !


You must feel lighter now !

Lou

[tsma]

*whew*


-bryan

[Gunn E. Slinger]

I about had a panic attack, I've saved a lot of stuff from here on my harddrive ,but not nearly what I would have liked,
this is a invaluable resource, thanks for keeping it alive george, you have no idea what it means to a lot of us.

[Hank S]

I finally got most of our life backup and I now hide the external hard drive in case of theft.

So glad your back.

[neikeel]

[demonufo]

And suddenly I've stopped sweating.

That was a close one, and a real shitty blow. I hope this hasn't hurt the wallet too much George, although I suspect it probably has.

[jape88]

Phew, great to see things back George. Had a wander out in the wilderness of music forums and I didn't like what I saw, great to have the comfort blanket back.

[FL6]

Phew, great to see things back George. Had a wander out in the wilderness of music forums and I didn't like what I saw, great to have the comfort blanket back.

That's exactly what I did and found the same.
It's a jungle out there.

[Brian Wallace]

Good to see the forum back up George.

[garbeaj]

Super glad you are getting back on track George...Scary situation!

[Roe]

great to have the forum up and running again!

[demonufo]

Phew, great to see things back George. Had a wander out in the wilderness of music forums and I didn't like what I saw, great to have the comfort blanket back.

Yes, and some real pieces of crap seemed to crawl out of the woodwork at the same time too. T'was like a feeding frenzy in some places.

[herbvis]

Great work getting this site back up!! It was hell not being able to visit here!1