Boot Land Stats, August

We've hit a new milestone in terms of monthly pageviews at our community, reaching over 600 000 during the slowest time of the year..



In terms of bandwidth, we're using around 100Gb per day. The graph starts with the period when it was only running the forum and the big jump is due to the transfer of all subdomains to this server after the secondary server was brought down.



Congratulations Boot Land. It was a tough month but we are still alive and going well.

New theme for our site

Hello!

We are preparing a new forum design. You can view the current progress at http://dnx.me and let us know your opinion.

Forum headers

Recently, as winbuilder.net started pointing to a specific forum category I've customized the header to become more informative and help people understand what the specific forum is all about, here's the example - http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=22

If you wish, I can extend this customization to other forum sections. The code that I used is not complicated, it uses BBcode, you can do it in the same manner as you write a forum topic.

Just create a new forum topic on the "Site feedback" section with the title "Forum Header - MySection" where MySection can be Grub4Dos, LiveXP or any other project. This way we keep each suggestion separated and are able to update them as time passes.


This invitation is open not just to the developers of their sections, anyone can volunteer and suggestion a customization to any forum section around here.

WinBuilder.net merged into Boot Land.

Well.. unfortunately, the server where winbuilder.net resided got (supposedly) hacked 10 days ago.

There was a complaint that was made to the hosting company where winbuilder.net was hosted and this was followed with a swift shutdown and blocking of the server. Supposedly, we were serving a malicious page used for phishing at my own personal site (nunobrito.eu) that was also hosted at the server. (if I wanted to publish a phishing page, I wouldn't surely put on my own page but what can I say.. )

I've been trying to bring back the server online or at the very least get our files back but they only provide access to the server under the condition that it is first formatted and all files deleted.

Needless to say that we no longer hold maintain a hosting contract with this company.

There was a backup made about two months ago of all the subdomains of both boot-land.net and winbuilder.net that were hosted at the server. I've restored this backup and put them back online with the help of Mikorist.

boot-land.blogspot was also shutdown last week due to a complaint of spam-behavior and we've been also receiving abuse/spam warnings from the hosting company where boot-land.net is hosted but luckily they gave us a chance of providing a proof that there is no veracity in these complaints and boot-land.net was not put in offline condition.

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With all these issues, some security measures need to be taken to tighten our defenses.

Given the fact that the portal where both nunobrito.eu and winbuilder.net were running can be hacked, I've moved my personal page to the blog at http://nunobrito1981.blogspot.com and winbuilder.net is now pointing to http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=22

I've done a very modest introduction to winbuilder at the root of the winbuilder forum here on boot land. Will try to improve the current state of things as time moves on but at least winbuilder.net will no longer point to a blank page and a download link to the latest version is currently available.

winbuilder project servers should be fully working as before but one drawback from this change is FTP access.

At the moment we are avoiding the grants of FTP accounts to the server as their respective passwords can be brute-forced. (even SSH is under attempts of password guessing)

One idea is using dropbox to share some folders with trusted developers that need to perform changes on their webspace although we are still working to provide a better long term solution that can be self-managed.

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So, my apologies for the current state of operations. Should take some months to get back to normality but at least we're still here.

CloudUSB OS

Here is an interesting project built around dropbox and Ubuntu:



http://cloudusb.net