I'm still in the dark as to what happened myself. I spent several hours in chat with the hosting provider last night, waiting for a response that never came. So, I went to bed. Got up 4 hours later, and it's working again. All I've gotten so far is an e-mail that says "the Site is responding again. please check", with still no explanation yet. I'm back on hat with them now, asked what happened, and am waiting on a response again.
and waiting...
and waiting...
So I've no idea what happened yet.
The initial outage was down to an "htaccess" file in the site that was blocking access and returning a database error, so the htaccess file was name-changed to stop interfering, but this outage was different in that the internet couldn't even find the site, so I'm still waiting to hear what the problem was. I even went so far as to check the domain registration with ICANN, and everything was good there, so I dunno yet.
The site is "safe", at least as safe as anywhere else on the internet. About all the can get here would be your registration e-mail address to spam it up, and I've not noticed mine getting spammed yet. You don't really leave any retrievable tracks here other than that, so You're still safe here. Just make sure you're using a different password here from your e-mail password, and you'll be fine.
Will update as/if I get more information.
ETA: The RN3 archive site was down at the same time, so it might have been the host under attack. That would also explain why they were too damned busy to talk.
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and waiting...
and waiting...
So I've no idea what happened yet.
The initial outage was down to an "htaccess" file in the site that was blocking access and returning a database error, so the htaccess file was name-changed to stop interfering, but this outage was different in that the internet couldn't even find the site, so I'm still waiting to hear what the problem was. I even went so far as to check the domain registration with ICANN, and everything was good there, so I dunno yet.
The site is "safe", at least as safe as anywhere else on the internet. About all the can get here would be your registration e-mail address to spam it up, and I've not noticed mine getting spammed yet. You don't really leave any retrievable tracks here other than that, so You're still safe here. Just make sure you're using a different password here from your e-mail password, and you'll be fine.
Will update as/if I get more information.
ETA: The RN3 archive site was down at the same time, so it might have been the host under attack. That would also explain why they were too damned busy to talk.
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