Overnight Crash June 13th 2006

Our providers (www.powerweb.com) had a very bad cluster failure at around 06:00 CET. The outage lasted for 4 hours but we are back up and all databases seem to be clean. We will be publishing a backup solution as soon as possible.

We had to restore all the databases after our provider's crash ... Things should be back to normal shortly. If you do notice any bugs please let us know at support@staitii.com.

Here is a list of changes that were made after the crash and restore:

- Added new security layer.
- Improved forum attachment upload routines for enhanced security.
- Introduced flood control to shoutbox and forums.
- Added "Make this News item sticky" option to news admin, allows one news item to remain the top most news item.
- Added news_sticky field to news database table.
- Added flood control to comments.
- Added Submit Photo feature.
- Complete Photo Gallery rewrite (uses new database and storage structure).
(which is not a feature used here yet ...)
- - Features:
- - - Albums stored in separate folders (if safe_mode is off)
- - - GIF, JPG, JPEG and PNG file support
- - - Album access for user type or group
- - - Thumbnails created without ugly borders
- - - Ratings & comments for each photo
- - - Full image downscaled if bigger than specified photo size with link to original image.
- - - bbcode support in album and photo description.
- Completely rewritten forum attachment upload/download handling.
- Added New Posts feature to Latest Active Forum Threads Panel.
- Added Thread email notification option to forum.
- Improved administration settings panels navigation.
- Numerous mysql optimisations for reduced load times.
- Partially rewritten forum for all round server load reduction.
- New more secure private messages system.