2nd that.

I created my last post August 10, 2025. Wasn’t able to post until about 30 minutes ago.

Yes. The domain was renewed for one more year after new search just moments ago.

Domain search: August 11, 2025: https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co...8/IMG_8828.png

Someone is doing this because my friend Pauls site is also being hit... (cableforum.co.uk/board)

I got on for a few secs earlier and there was over 40,000 Guests!!!!!

Isnt there anyway to track this illegial activity??

It doesnt matter what SW the site is on,DDOS can happen anytime!!

Moderation/Administration team: this site has been basically inaccessible for the past 2 weeks from DDOS attacks and You've been silent. Please update us on what's being done to fix this. The silent treatment is only acceptable when an issue lasts less a full day.

Site is working at this moment 11:32 pac.hopefully problems are over?I see a few members have joined ARF. Antiqueradios.com RonL

Im talking to Ms Grumpy about this... (Daves wife)

She is trying to get it resolved here........ She told me it isnt as easy as raising the max load limit sadly......

Lets hope it keeps working! -- No where near the traffic needed that should cause these messages all the time......

They know about it now.... Lets hope they get it fixed :)

Hi to all

Hi @Dude 111,

ask Dave's wife to contact IT Admin Halilesen at ARF radio forum :

halil AT antiqueradios DOT com

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Wow! It's working. 8AM (ET) 8/28.

Woohoo, I'm in!

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Working right now.how long will it last? RonL

Its working at 12:19 am pac.how long will it last?

Don't think that we have given up. We have been working on this issue and we are hoping that we can have it corrected sooner than later.

I'm in again.

Looks like grumpy is still trying to work it out.

Grumpy: If you haven't already seen the thread on Antique Radio Forums, you have their web site person willing to help solve the issue. See Here: https://antiqueradios.com/p3890629


https://www.videokarma.org/attachmen...1&d=1758262287

Thanks for the feedback Grumpy.We are standing by.working right now( 11:20 pm pacific).RonL

Are we officially back to normal?

.

I hope so. RonL

Its been working for over 1/4 hour!I just posted about my Edison cylinder player.first post I created here in month's! RonL

It is a work in progress. I have been working with our hosting company and finally dug deep enough to find the root cause. They found the variable which sets what vBulletin expects for the load limit is named "loadlimit". When searching through the code they found the operations which set this flag to "true".

Basically the code says if the operating system is NOT Windows, and if the 'loadlimit' value is greater than zero, and if the 'loadavg' value is greater than the 'loadlimit' value, then set the 'servertoobusy' flag to 'true'. This flag controls whether the "too busy" message is displayed on the site. The interesting thing is the 'loadlimit' value is set in the database to '0', meaning this feature "should" be disabled.

So it seems to be an issue with vBulletin interpreting the environment, or a vbulletin issue in general. For now, I have manually turned off the load limit process in vBulletin. We will see how things run or if this creates other issues. Server load will be monitored on the server side.

Unbelievable!

We're back baby

Thank you Grumpy and Wardsweb for bringing Videokarma back to life!!

Thanks for bringing Videokarma back!Lots of info and helpful members here. RonL

Yep, Thanks!

is it really fixed?

Thanks for your hard work!!

Thanks!!!!!

Thank you Wards....... I knew it had something to do with server load limits and I thought it could be done from admincp!! (Sadly Daves wife didnt know how to do it (and I didnt know exactly what to tell her))

Thank you Wards,we love ya buddy!!!!!

Thank you David..... I was really trying to help.... When I started talking to your wife,I found out she is as nice as you are :)

We love ya both so much buddy!!

Thank you......

Many thanks! Sure missed this site!
Again, THANKS!

Yay!! Back on business :) Thx for the enormous effort!

Wow, still cannot believe it, will it stay?:tresbon:

Regards,
TV-collector:stupid:

Wew! It's so nice to see the site up again!

We all love it here!

I had been hanging out over at the CRT Collective:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/444560212348840/
Mostly gamers but some crt technology enthusiasts there also.

Wow it's great to be back. Thanks to everyone behind the scenes keeping this place running.

Hi to all,

"Thank you Grumpy and Wardsweb for bringing Videokarma back to life!"

it would be wise to have direct Mail addresses for these two gentlemen in case internet mischief happens again.

Any possibility to increase the size of jpg/bmp/pdf attachments to attain the convenience of more recent forum engines?
increase in number of pixels and file size would be great.

A backup of the entire site as of today for read-only access.
Would the ETF be willing to host?

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France

Another thing for the future is getting SSL up and going, as well as moving the server through a service such as Cloudflare.

Services like Cloudflare have mitigations for these types of attacks built-in. Perfect? No but its better than taking on the load of opsec yourself.

Videokarma already serves over TLS/HTTPS, but the webserver is not configured to redirect HTTP -> HTTPS

Good there is no reason to.........

All newer browsers will goto HTTPS automatically......

Im on IE6 and im glad the site doesnt block HTTP,I would have to go thru a proxy to get here otherwise.......there is no reason to on a site like this...

We are glad everyone is back......

73s

Wow, so great to have these forums back. I was beginning to think this site was lost forever.
Thank you!

As an IT troglodyte, yet electronic engineer by profession, I am grateful for this site. Thank you Grumpy and Co for your diligent efforts to get us back in!!