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    Flight sim site deleted by hackers

    Isn't this just really sad behaviour? Who would want to knock out a website that just exists for fans and mods etc.?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8049780.stm

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    Re: Flight sim site deleted by hackers

    Yup, and unfortunately, it is just because they can

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    Re: Flight sim site deleted by hackers

    I saw this before, couldn't believe it, have never heard of the website or anything before but after having read what the site is all about it makes me really sad that someone feld the need to destroy it this badly, its one thing to take down a site, its a LOT worse that they completely destroyed the whole site and any method of getting it back I hope that the users of the site get something back and it gets sorted, it would be ashame for the whole community to be destroyed because of it.

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    Re: Flight sim site deleted by hackers

    Just curious, and it depends if it was their own kit in a datacentre or whether it was a dedicated server they rented, wouldn't the hosting company have backups in case of hardware failure or fire etc?

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    Re: Flight sim site deleted by hackers

    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    Just curious, and it depends if it was their own kit in a datacentre or whether it was a dedicated server they rented, wouldn't the hosting company have backups in case of hardware failure or fire etc?
    I think it was self hosted, and the backup server was hacked and deleted along with the live server. The mistake was in not having an external backup, but then if you're running a site as a hobby you probably don't think of that.

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    Re: Flight sim site deleted by hackers

    Pretty damn idiotic.

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    Re: Flight sim site deleted by hackers

    I read about it earlier and it was pretty damned mean-spirited of whoever did this.

    I suppose the one positive is that it does ram home the importance of off-site back-ups.. though it's pretty difficult to take anything positive out of the situation, really. :-|

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