Computer Chat vb site was down why

[Hawk2]

this and the .org site have been down for hours and I have noticed over the last few's days it has been very laggy so whats going on was the site hacked why was it down for so long

[Mark.B]

Don't breathe yet, it came back up earlier and went straight down again. This might not last too long.

Almost seven hours downtime is pretty dire. Something major must have gone wrong. At one point the DNS didn't even resolve.

[Mark.B]

See, I was right, it went off again!

[aussiefooty]

They said on their facebook page that they had some server problems.

[beishe8]

See, I was right, it went off again!

Time to plan population growth...

[Wayne Luke]

From my checking it seems the entire connection to the data center was down. Don't know the exact reason except the servers weren't accessible and if they aren't accessible to the internet they aren't hackable during that time. Well unless it was an inside job.

[Trevor Hannant]

Note that tis affected all IB sites, not just vBulletin

[beishe8]

Note that tis affected all IB sites, not just vBulletin

...even the main site of vBulletin (vbulletin.com) was down.

[Hawk2]

well its nice to see it was not hacked had a feeling it was just the server box problem

[Trevor Hannant]

...even the main site of vBulletin (vbulletin.com) was down.

As an IB site, it would have been, yes...

[aussiefooty]

As long as it is all sorted out and the servers are all back up and running.
Gotta hate it when the servers go down. Everyone whinges.