PLEASE READ THIS, My Appologies Everyone!

[ea56]

Thanks Robert!!!

No need to apologize! You do so much for all of us to help bring this wonderful group of friends with many common interests together. I can’t thank you enough for all you do! I felt like an addict that couldn’t get my fix while the site was down, LOL.

I sure hope that this doesn’t happen again, its way too much extra work for you to have to take on. I for one would be more that happy to make an extra contribution if you were to make that option available and if it would help you out with any extra expenses that you may have incurred to get AW.org back online.

A Great Big Hug to You!
Eddie

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thank you, Robert and just for the record, good does not always triumph over evil. The over 6 million killed in the Holocaust and the centuries of abuse, persecution and enslavement of native peoples and other minorities in many lands all over the world should prove that.

 

[mrsalvo]

Robert, thank you so much for all that you do and giving us our community back!! Your hard work and dedication is much, much appreciated and I certainly don’t take it for granted. I’m breathing a sigh of relief. This is about the only site on the entire internet I really care about. No need to make any apologies. Thank-you. Thank-.you.

Barry

 

[vacerator]

Yes Robert,

many thank's! I don't see what hacking this site would get them. Maybe I am missing sonmething like trying to get personal finacial data?
I got yelled at today for using my credit card for a small overseas purchase and not Paypal. Even though the German shop uses a secure safepay. Knowing Germans it is bonded like Paypal, because they are less trusting than we are. of course I guess there is no guarantee of no identity theft. Hubby trusts Paypal because they are bonded and the sller doesn't see your credit card numbers. Hubby says once you click send, the credit card numbers are on the web.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

Did they get our personal information, like email address?
Hi Paul, that doesn't appear to be the case especially with them coming in and the first thing they do is wipe out all the data! It was more likely was to highjack as many servers as they can get their hands on to do god only knows what kind of naughtiness.

I don't see what hacking this site would get them.
I'm sure they know absolutely nothing about the specific content of the sites they hack, vintage washers or not. As I said above if they cast a wide net they are bound to get lots of hits and use those server for their own dirty deeds. I'm sure they absolutely couldn't care less what the websites they're destroying are about.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Robert,

Thank you for your efforts to maintain one of the very best forums on the web!

 

[maytag85]

Thank you Robert!

Oddly enough, Vacuumland didn’t seemed to be hacked since it came up as usual without any errors.

Seems like technology isn’t wanting to cooperate since there’s been a lot of hacking along with the shortage of computer chips and other various electronic components.

 

[searsbest]

Robert,
Thank you for all of your hard work! It was crazy to see it was all gone!! AW has brought so many people together, I could not imagine life without it!!

 

[iej]

You did a great job getting it back up again so quickly - far faster than some commercial websites that have had major hacks.

 

These things seem to be random / opportunistic.

 

I would strongly advise we all change PW over the next few days!

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[kevin313]

Robert - thank you for everything you do for our community here!

You are the best and appreciated beyond words!

 

[launderess]

Good Job!

Please stop apologizing! It wasn't your fault, and if anything you deserve a medal for working tirelessly for many hours bringing site back up.

Pour yourself four fingers of bourbon (or beverage of choice) sit back, relax and have a wee bit congratulations for a job well done.

 

[askolover]

Yes thank you. That was a quick reboot!

 

[robbinsandmyers]

Im just totally blown away by how fast you got it up and running again. Great work! Personally I just think Putin wanted all our pizza pics for himself then crashed the site after he stole them LOL

 

[sambootoo]

I echo everyone else's comments, no need for apologies. I appreciate ALL that you do for this great site.

 

[egress]

I am amazed at how quickly you were able to restore the website, and glad that you are keeping backups! I second the notion of changing passwords, it is probably a good safety measure either way.

 

[gizmo]

Thank you, Robert.

That was a fast recovery. Well done! Now get some rest. **HUG**

 

[mopar65]

Thank you

For your hard work and time, so we can enjoy this site.
Anthony

 

[launderess]

Just as a wee public service reminder, always back-up, back-up, back-up.

If you have a website even if hosting service does automatic backing up, it's a good idea to do so on your own.

For your personal computer or other devices suggested practice nowadays recommends at least two separate back-up locations. One could be an external device and other on Cloud. Maybe RAID (with at least two hard drives), with one external. Two or three external....

If you have games, pictures, music, projects and other files that cannot be replaced you want to have copies stored on one or more back-up sources.

Other bit of advice is to keep an eye on hard drive health both external and external. If you see signs a drive is starting to get on last legs, get a new one and back-up your files onto it before other drives pushes up daises.

 

[rapidry1000]

Robert

Thanks for all you do for the site. No apologies needed.

 

[donprohel]

No need to apologise indeed

I completely agree with the other members, Robert: you must not apologise.

Regardless the reason and the fact that it was not your fault at all, problems happen, but I thank you very much for all your hard work to keep this site running smoothly.

Believe me, Robert: your hard work is much, much appreciated