Could it be that DDoS has caused the file system corruption then?
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I read this
I have an update from iFastNet about the situation.
The hardware on which these servers run suffered a file system corruption problem. iFastNet has worked hard to repair it and recover as much data as possible. Unfortunately, some data was permanently lost and could not be recovered. Accounts experiencing the 404 and FTP home directory errors have all lost their files.
Later today they plan to recreate the missing directories so itâs possible to login to FTP again.
Weâre all sorry for the inconvenience caused.
This only affects website files. Everything else, including databases, are unaffected by this, and can be used to rebuild the site if necessary.
I thought the servers had something like RAID to prevent data loss ?
And what happens if the database server is hit
What is causing these issues ??
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your mounted file system did not get unmounted gracefully upon shutdown
a bad software or utility has messed up the FAT at MBR or equivalent.
Your system was too busy and I/O itensive but not optimized for such an environment.
your restart procedure could not or did not check (and repair) the file system with inconsistencies before mounting it though found corrupted
your system has got a deeper hardware error such as bad blocks on the HDD or more weird hardware ones (such as HDD controller or bad memory)
last but not least, a bug in the kernelâs FS Module.
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Payback of using old hardware/kernel version then? 
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Maybe itâs AI - so she took revenge for the murder of her child, called Mr. Cron
I shared this a long time ago in 10k
but here it is again for those who havenât seen it, and it is also related to recent events
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Maybe, it could be caused by the DDoS. I think most of the servers are on a networked file system, and although those should be resilient against network problems, itâs possible that some nasty combination of circumstances caused problems.
I have no idea whether this is really the cause or how likely this is. This is all just hypothetical.
RAID protects you against the failure of a particular disk, but there are other issues which it does not protect against. I was told the problem was file system corruption, which means itâs a problem higher up than RAID.
Free hosting runs a mix of different hardware, configurations and OS versions. There are physical machines and VMs, and systems running CentOS 6, AlmaLinux 8, and maybe CentOS 7 too.
I guess it would be more convenient to manage if everything was homogeneous, but the times I remember where servers were migrated, this often resulted in a lot of problems and downtime for websites too. So going the âif it ainât broken, donât fix itâ route has itâs merits.
Also, from what I can tell, these IPs are fairly new.
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One of the problems with it is the unpatched vulnerabilities. Certains applications such as php stop providing security patches after a specific version reaches its EOL, hence keeping it untouched because it works isnât a good reason.
Even new hardwares let alone old ones have their own share of problems, one of the most recent problems is the not-so-newly discovered vulnerability in most of the Intel CPUs which is patched by a specific firmware update (+loss of performance)
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I am so confused.
I canât connect to ftpupload.net using Filezilla or my localhost project because the connection times out.
I assumed it was a server issue until I tried a web ftp client like https://webftp.dreamhost.com/ and it was all working out fine?
Edit: Appears to be a problem with either my computerâs firewall or my ISP.
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Yeah, that happened to me as well when I used the schoolâs wifi.
Check if FTP connections are blocked by either your computer/routerâs firewall or your isp.
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I donât think thatâs a thing anymore, but you said âor equivalentâ, so makes sense
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Now I finally know why does the account âsystemâ got 7 (was 6 before I figured out) likes:
God knows how did I discovered thisâŚ
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Now 8
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Now I added another like to it so itâs now 9!
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10 now
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Welcome back @YT_Xaos!
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Yeh, Welcome back!
First PSEO class in-person (basically free college in high school) today. Lez go and wish me luck!
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Good luck!
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Anyone know who this guy is? I had some fun messing around with it today
(This is on a Windows 11 machine btw)
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Oh god I hate the IE dev console! And it actually really bothers me the roundabout way that you have launch the dev console when using IE mode in Edge.
Thatâs why I just launch the app itself (works in 11 and 10 trust me Iâve tested it):
CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application").Visible=true
Just put it in a .vbs file and double click to run and u have an IE window! Or you could do the same thing in C# but I see no reason to do it that way.
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Oh, thatâs a good way to do it. I just have the âRunâ command pinned to my clipboard.
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