Site Downtime & Updates

[AndrewR32]

As of a few hours ago, I have been granted full administrator access for DI. I managed to bring the site back online after the week or so downtime. Im not sure how the site was taken down, but i've changed all codes, updated all software and removed old versions of the site that were still on the server.

Hopefully these measures will decrease the chances of further downtime and future issues.

If anyone gets any errors, blank pages or otherwise, feel free to send me over a pm.

LONG LIVE DRIFTIRELAND :)

Andrew

[LarZ]

Andrew you are a legend!

[Stevo]

Good job andrew

[barman]

Fair play Andrew

[derek89]

Fair play man. Thought it was gone for good this time

[Davy]

glad to see it back! thanks andrew

[full boost]

Glad its back fair play Andrew

[jonnyrb]

Good man Andrew, good to have DI back.

[Darren]

Thank fuck was almost havein to talk to herself there earlyer

[paddyb01]

Thank fuck was almost havein to talk to herself there earlyer

Hahahaha

[niall s14a]

Haha I think there was a lot've lads in the same boat! Fair play on getting things back up and going Andrew, we should all make more of an effort to post a bit more in build threads etc now to keep a bit of interest going.

[thetangerine]

Fair play pal legend nd a half I can get my fix how����

[Hachi]

Thank fuck was almost havein to talk to herself there earlyer

Hahahaha Close call

Good jod Andrew

[Dunnedriftin]

Fairplay andrew!!

[Eoin k]

Good man Andrew

[TorqueWorks]

Man Andrew

[lady89]

very good! keep it up :)

[Andrew200sx]

holy F**K i was going mad without the site. i was on facebook in my spare time instead. thanks for sorting out the site man.

[D.Daly]

That's the job! Good man! :D

[Kruizer]

Can you bring back the New Posts button for the menu bar ?

[Dunnedriftin]

''New posts'' working fine for me on the laptop?I know on the phone its not very ''phone friendly''. New posts is on the menu bar on the left

[lady89]

Can you bring back the New Posts button for the menu bar ?

that was never gone?
I see it on the top left!

[20vees]

Good man andrew

[LarZ]

Just to let phone users know, you can change the look back to the 'old' look towards the bottom there's a 'View Full Site' link that should sort you out.

[Billy_P]

What happened yesterday out of curiosity?

Is it a server problem or people getting into security and fucking around?

[AndrewR32]

hosting company issues. they are not happy with the spam filters on the site, which have now been updated and they'll be watching closely.

when ye see the error 403, its a manual suspension by the hosting company

[BrevGTV]

good to have the site back,fair play andrew

[Stevo]

Fair fucks this is looking awful well!!! :cool:

[slithertooth]

Nice one!

[derek89]

Yup good to see updated dude.

[sideways-theonlyway]

Site looks great, great effort been put in :)

[LarZ]

yeah great stuff man! I'd only change the logo a bit though. Take the gradient out and just leave it white. It's very hard to make it out if you don't recognise it.

[Andrew200sx]

like the look of the site, about time it had an update. still think that the driftireland logo needs modernizing.

[LarZ]

like the look of the site, about time it had an update. still think that the driftireland logo needs modernizing.

I don't think we should touch the logo. It's very recognisable and would be very easy to ruin people's association with the 'hay day' of drifting. It's simple, loads of cars have the logo stickers already. I think that changing it would be a bad move.

[fluffmister]

I don't think we should touch the logo. It's very recognisable and would be very easy to ruin people's association with the 'hay day' of drifting. It's simple, loads of cars have the logo stickers already. I think that changing it would be a bad move.


agreed to keep it just get rid of the gradient

[AndrewR32]

logo changed to white

[fluffmister]

looks 100% better and really stands out now

[LarZ]

logo changed to white

bang on now :) Thanks so much for doing all this work dude. It means a lot to me and to everyone who comes here regularly. I know that people say that facebook is taking over and all that but it obviously doesn't satisfy everyone's needs. I'd just ask people to keep their build threads up to date, or even revive old build threads with as little as a recent pic.

Fair play man! Great to see that someone cares as much as we do and is willing to put in the effort to keep progressing.

[LarZ]

It's getting better and better. The ads are spot on too. Really grab your attention. Great work again man!

[AndrewR32]

Cheers larz/lads. have managed to get the old .com domain forwarded to the .ie, and have limited access to the facebook page also.

Things are moving along nicely :)

[scottr89]

Yay the smileys are back!! :cool: