As you can see, the site is now back up. We’re almost certain it didn’t go down as the result of a malicious attack. Rather, it was an unforeseeable hardware fault. Not a conspiracy, in other words, but an unfortunate accident. Then again, I would say that, wouldn’t I?
Thanks to Ian Rons, our IT Director, for working flat out for the last 24 hours to fix the problem, and to Nic Elliott, who lets us use his server for free and also helped fix the problem. (Check out Sounding Board, Nic’s excellent podcast.) Everything on the Daily Sceptic is backed up regularly so we didn’t lose anything apart from a few below-the-line comments.
I’ll be doing the News Round-Up tonight and will aim to include the most interesting stuff that’s appeared over the last two days. Luckily, there’s usually very little news over the festive period so that shouldn’t be too arduous.
Happy Boxing Day and a special thank you to all those people who’ve donated to our Donorbox account while the site has been down. We are hugely grateful for your continuing support.
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Great news. Well done to all who have worked hard on the fix.
Interesting lead item in the Sunday Telegraph today
https://news.sky.com/story/sundays-national-newspaper-front-pages-12427754
Hard work? The picture suggest it was the “turning it off and on again” solution
By the way IT Crowd is absolutely hilarious series.
This is clear evidence of the Daily Sceptic being part of a co-ordinated conspiracy to close down free speech over Christmas to stop people telling the truth. Only joking
However on the subject of who is actually pulling the strings in this realm we inhabit, and who the big players truly are, Russ Brown has done some great work here.
SPECIAL REPORT Blackrock & Vanguard? – Revealed The Company That REALLY DOES Owns Everything DTCC
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5glPSneO9ClF/
‘Blackrock! give’s a job’.
Time we played them at their own game. Can you imagine if we could get inside and turn this sh!t show around?
tbh take more evil and patience than most of us can muster I’d guess
FFS do some research into ETFs and nominee companies. Russ Brown is an extremely ignorant conspiracy theorist, and does not even write as well as his brother , Dan.
How do others view the mood of the nation after the last couple of weeks and after speaking with family (if you were able to do so) over Christmas?
I have found more people saying enough is enough even if they still believe the messaging.
Even my wife, who had only gone as far as remaining unjabbed but found much of the rest of the sceptical side too horrible to contemplate, has now started being openly critical of what is being done to us.
I have had the jabs. I don’t have the app. My husband and I have decided we are not home testing any more. I don’t test myself for a cold or the flu so why Covid. My wider family are split one third are still enjoying being martyrs the other two thirds are getting on with their lives and what they want to do.
Mind you, that side are farmers and if they worked from home we would all be stuffed.
Oh, and my sister, double jabbed with serious lung condition caught Civud in early November. She was so ill the GP got her admitted to hospital. They turfed her out 3 hours later and told me on the phone the fact that she lived alone and could barely stand was irrelevant. I picked her up and we nursed her. I have never seen anyone so ill discharged from a hospital. For the first 48h I was worried she might not survive.
We used sensible hygiene precautions regarding hand washing etc. but no masks or other faf. She was with us for 2 weeks before ready to return home.
We did not catch it from her.
I didn’t have a very high opinion of our large city hospital before. I will not repeat what I think about them now. Although she probably got far better care from us than in there.
Thank goodness for people like you. X
Most definitely many more than ever before saying they have had enough.
My nephew home from Uni has had enough and confirms that others in his age group are done with the restrictions and will not adhere to them – so some good news.
My sister’s christmas – for which she had travelled a long distance at considerable effort and expense – was totally trashed by the restrictions as one of their party had a positive test. My instinct would have been to advise, unless you feell really ill, go ahead and celebrate xmas as a group. but because she and her family will be travelling again in Europe after christmas they had to abide by the restrictions on testing and isolation to the letter. The “sickness” such as it was was no more than a cold. When, in days of yore, did any of us NOT sit around our festive tables with someone who had a touch of the cold??? Before this my sister was a total covidian – I’m sensing frustration with the “restrictions” but that is about all. A shame she cannot see the whole sham and charade for what it is.
It could go either of 2 ways – a lot of people who have had their festive celebrations ruined by covid might say “it is going to be like this from here on in – there is no point in trying to plan a christmas any more”
OR they could say “that’s it – had enough of this crap”
I think TPTB are hoping with all the restrictions deliberately brought in at this time of year that the response will be the former one as I believe they want to kill of christmas and travel and hospitality industries.
Nice little website you’ve got there Toby. Shame if anything was to happen to it
~ The Establishment
A big thanks to all who got it fixed! Phew!
Welcome back, glad no hack.
Glad to see you back online after more than 24 hours down
Let’s hope your server has all the latest antivirus software and is getting jabbed (patched) every 3 months.
It obviously needed its booster. Another one in 12 weeks?
A big thank you to Ian Rons for working over Christmas to fix everything.
You’re welcome, mate. But if you have any children, don’t encourage them to go into IT. Unless it involves investment banking, that is.
Wouldn’t do the IB, either. It’s a very high price for a decent salary and a string of bonus excuses.
Or plumbing!
Let the record show that for more than thirty hours, this website was inaccessible and showed the following message on a blank-white screen:
Keep it up people we will prevail.
Half your luck! The mercury hit 44C here yesterday, and the power went out in my neighbourhood about twelve hours ago. Still waiting for its return.
Update: ten minutes after my post above the power came back on in full.
Apparently the gods of electricity monitor DS for prayers and petitions. Okay, whatever. Sure beats finding a virgin to sacrifice.
It is lucky you weren’t in England. Here we are told nobody can survive temperatures of over 35C.
44C: wow, is that Alice Springs?
Perth.
I’d rather not think what it’s like in Alice Springs!
Welcome back. I’ve been using Twatter since Christmas morning. That’s not good.
“we didn’t lose anything apart from a few below-the-line comments.”
Just the really important, truly counter-narrative, stuff, then!
Happy Boxing Day to Tech guys and Toby Thank you for having the courage and tech savvy to create a place for sceptics and truth sharers.
was lost with out my daily ‘ the daily sceptic ‘so glad back !thank you toby wil l ian and all and the great btl commenters . am stuck among the poor brainwashed folk otherwise
Indeed,
Welcome back Toby. May I add my thanks to your(our) great IT geniuses.
Why are you running your own server in this day and age?
Put it in the cloud! No one should be dealing with actual physical hardware nowadays.
And who controls the “cloud”? Some benevolent god?
They’re right to keep it close to home. I ran our business server for years with only a few inconvenient glitches – even through that other scam, the Millenium Bug!
I can tell from the user profile page icon and URL that this is a Word Press site… so the benevolent gods in this case would be hundreds of word press hosting companies all competing with each other to provide full WP stack nginx hardened security with database back up, memcache page caching etc at the cheapest price the market allows for. Maybe some of them will use Microsoft, Google or AWS for the hardware.. but it should be possible to find some that don’t. My point is there are companies who compete on providing secure, backed up sites with an SLA for up time… leaving Ian to do other more interesting things with his time
Fair point but, as you say, using the likes of Google and Amazon Web.
I once foolishly trusted a company offering cloud services with full backup and “military grade” encryption. Fine for a year until they decided to farm it out to another service provider but failed to transfer any files and so “lost” all the data. Fortunately I had been mirroring the data so it was back to the old trusty server in the back of the office!
I’ve been using Ghost for 2 years It comes both as open source and with a hosting option. Newsletter’s, no need for (SEO) extensions, has paid membership built in and they’ve made it very easy to install API’s, if needed. I still haven’t broken anything.
Many thanks to the DS team.
Just glad you’re back.