| By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 03:02 am: Edit |
Is the FedCmdr board down?? I get this 503 error:
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Garth L. Getgen
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 10:18 pm: Edit |
It disappeared late yesterday and figured it was just one of those temporary things and didn't think much of it. But it's been out for over a day now.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Monday, January 05, 2026 - 11:21 pm: Edit |
Any updates on the FC Forum?
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 - 04:02 pm: Edit |
I don't know anything about it. Jean is out of town today. Email her and maybe she can figure it out tomorrow.
| By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, January 18, 2026 - 12:15 am: Edit |
Any word on when the FedCmdr board might come back on-line??
Garth L. Getgen
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, January 18, 2026 - 10:41 am: Edit |
I asked Jean to find out what happened but she has been sick.
| By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 11:48 am: Edit |
It should be back up.
| By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 06:25 pm: Edit |
And already getting spammed. 
Want to know about sourdough bread??
Garth L. Getgen
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 03:09 am: Edit |
Didn't realize it was back up until today. (Been busy with work!) However, I cleaned out the spam that accumulated.
| By Kevin Howard (Jarawara) on Monday, February 02, 2026 - 02:07 pm: Edit |
Website keeps going down, but I see little to no discussion on what it was (or even if it was). Was starfleetgames down earlier today, or was it just me?
Just to note, the website downforeveryoneorjustme says you were down, it wasn't just me, but then when you're up again I find nobody talking about it.
| By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Monday, February 02, 2026 - 02:39 pm: Edit |
It has been down time to time for me too. Not just the bulletin board the main stop where the store and everything else is.
| By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Monday, February 02, 2026 - 06:45 pm: Edit |
I think there hosting company is having power issues.
| By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 - 09:55 am: Edit |
If I recall correctly, the site is hosted by a service in Georgia, which is still dealing with massive power outages from the latest round of storms.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 - 06:56 pm: Edit |
Well, it appears that the FC Forum is down again. This time it is a 404 error, not a 503 error.
| By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 - 07:39 pm: Edit |
all day on and off the whole website has been down today.
| By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 - 11:57 pm: Edit |
Their servers are being slammed with bots that are taking us down.
| By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, February 04, 2026 - 03:28 pm: Edit |
Our hosting company let us know the following:
We temporarily blocked access to the phpbb2 forum since that's what is killing your website. I think we'll pull a copy from an old backup and compare files. As far as I know nothing should have changed to the program files - maybe some avatars but that's it.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, February 04, 2026 - 11:31 pm: Edit |
Well, if its gotta go, its gotta go. If the FC Forum site is taking the whole thing with it, the rest is far, far more important!
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, February 05, 2026 - 12:19 am: Edit |
Jean and I will discuss this tomorrow. We're also waiting on news about a firewall system we want the host to install but the discus BBS cannot use it.
| By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Thursday, February 05, 2026 - 02:15 pm: Edit |
Our hosting company is going to try to update the Forum's software to see if that helps.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, February 05, 2026 - 03:11 pm: Edit |
The Forum is "the easiest way in" for the foreign government intelligence bots, which is why it keeps going down. If the foreign bots don't crash it, our host turns it off to stop the nonsense. As Jean said, we're working on a solution.
| By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Thursday, February 05, 2026 - 03:35 pm: Edit |
War, might be a good option.
I seem to remember a fictional Ships Chief Engineer ruminating on what makes a good diplomat..
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Monday, February 09, 2026 - 10:08 am: Edit |
Hey! The FC Forum is back up and has been updated to a much newer version.
It also got several spam messages which I have now cleared out.
| By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, February 09, 2026 - 04:57 pm: Edit |
Will the new version allow curly-quotes??
Garth L. Getgen
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 09:05 am: Edit |
I don't know and would have to remember how to turn them on to find out.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 09:17 am: Edit |
It cost us $400 paid to our net provider host to fix the current mess. Thanks, foreign fiends.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 04:22 pm: Edit |
Well, the spammers haven't gone away, unfortunately.
I am sorry to hear about needing to do all that.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Friday, February 13, 2026 - 01:35 pm: Edit |
Just want to point out that since I am a moderator for only part of the FC Forums, I cannot delete all of the spam that appears. So, please keep that in mind when you see any.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, February 13, 2026 - 09:47 pm: Edit |
Jean, can we make Mike a moderator there?
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