CAG takes the weekend off...sorry!

[CheapyD]

Ok, here is the short version of the story of the CAG outtage.

After the recent "hacking" incident, I was obviously concerned about security. I hired a server admin service that specialized in security. We found his posting on a website that is community of web admins.

Without getting too technical, he basically screwed up some stuff and then put up a firewall which blocked all admin access (himself included) to the server. We had to contact the hosting company (the place where the server lives) and they had to bring down the firewall from the console. The hosting company also says there was a hardware problem too, but that seems like a strange coincidence/unlikely.

Obviously I got a refund from the security company but the whole thing was a complete nightmare.

Special thanks to Defender and Evitoo for getting us back online!
Issues:
*Clock is an hour off.

[mcwilliams132]

Man...I was getting worried there for a moment! Glad you're back up!

[Wet Ninja]

I think the time may be an hour fast. Does anyone else have this problem?

Edit: Forgot to mention, thanks for getting the site back up! I've really been missing it.

[gamefreak117]

ya, I couldn't live a week without CAG nowadays..

I thought CAG got hit or something. It's great the site is back up so soon.

[Scorch]

I clicked my shortcut on my browser for CAG at least 200 times. Most of it was unintentionally, just out of habit and whatnot.

[KrazyKefka]

Glad to see the site's back up.

[CheapyD]

I clicked my shortcut on my browser for CAG at least 200 times. Most of it was unintentionally, just out of habit and whatnot.

Imagine how many times I clicked on the Support page at my host!

[jtreumuth]

HOORAY!!!

[Trakan]

I was having some serious withdrawals. Glad CAG is back. :D

[Dark Slayer120]

Glad CAG is back. :D

[TJordan522]

I had nothing to do this weekend.....glad you're back up!

[MaskedPlague]

I thought it was just me. I am so glad CAG is back!

[MorbidAngel4Life]

WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!

[FriskyTanuki]

I'm glad, GT's good as a short-time substitue, but getting CAG back is great news.

[Murcielago77]

awesome

[SneakyPenguin]

Wooooo!

::goes back to GT::

[Negative]

I just wasted my entire kid's college fund on crap games because I had no CAG!!!!

[jalu6]

I just wasted my entire kid's college fund on crap games because I had no CAG!!!!

Yeah me too. I spent $50 each on the Hobbit, Primal and Bloodrayne 1 - all from Buy Rite games.

Thank Heavens its back!

[eskimo]

I'm glad CAG is back. I received an email notifying me that gametour was hacked. I think that might be one of defender's other sites. I was guessing it may have been related to CAG's disappearance.

[regisphilbi0]

Hallelujah!!!

[hutno]

Its great to see that the sites up and running again

[MadChedar0]

I was afraid Best Buy shut CAG down, nice to see it's back up.

[evilmojo12542]

wooooo hoooooooo back in business now

[worx]

I was afraid Best Buy shut CAG down, nice to see it's back up.

nah, the plan to take CAG offline was hatched by the masterminds at GameFAQs :D

[Scahom1]

YAY! My arm can stop twitching now...

[ajh2298]

I am so glad CAG is back I have been spending my day reading the GameFAQ boards an I have lost at least 50 to 60 IQ points.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Do you know how much I miss this site before I go out and do my Sunday shopping? I plan where I go based on who's selling what cheap in their Sunday ads.

[djak1]

CAG withdrawal sux...glad its over :D

[Mr.Answer]

Do you know how much I miss this site before I go out and do my Sunday shopping? I plan where I go based on who's selling what cheap in their Sunday ads.

was searching a fun stumble site and came upon this image, my gift to you P.A.D.

http://img102.exs.cx/img102/9646/reagan0rz.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[gaelan]

i was so desperate i dl'ed that bogus plug in and reinfected my pc...just in case.

[Xevious]

I'm glad Cheapy that your website is back. I hope it never happens again...

[Dok Diamond]

I was so bored this weekend, glad its back up

[javeryh]

THANK YOU!

[Rig]

I was gone for the weekend. Looks like I didn't miss much if the site was down...

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Poor GameTour. This weekend it got soo much traffic, and now that CAG is back....

[Admiral Ackbar]

It's obvious what happened to CAG... (http://www.itsatrap.net/)

[the_deej]

i was very insecure the past day without cag

[Nirvanaguy777]

I was very upset that the site was done, glad its back In working order.

[FriskyTanuki]

I believe it was THIS MAN (http://www.gametour.com/forums/-vp3549.html#3549)!!!!

[WhipSmartBanky]

A day and a half in realtime is like an eternity in internet time. I'm assuming the security guy got handed a red shirt and sent on an away mission?

Anyway, good job in getting it back up before the weekend was over.

[hiccupleftovers]

I was having some serious withdrawals. It's great to see CAG back up and running smoothly again. I nearly bought a couple $50 games and a full price DS :shock:. The horror to just think of it.

[grecianfox]

Glad the website is back. I was going through serious withdrawal but did get caught up on my porn surfing.

[ValkyrieVF-1S]

/me huggles CAG

Yay! it is finally back up. I got a little worried~

[shoobywizard88]

For a little while i thought something was wrong with my computer, or trying to make me mad. Had nothing to do all weekend. Glad to see it up and running again!!!!!

[Legolas813]

At first I thought it was either my computer acting up, or my campus internet blocking the site. Man, I had to have refreshed the CAG home page a hundred times over the last day or two. Glad to see that everything is pretty much back to normal.

[supermariomelee]

Good to see it back up, I was going through withdrawl without it. I need my CAG fix everyday.

[GuilewasNK]

Glad to hear things a relatively back to normal. I was getting concerned for a second. I missed the forums and the people more than anything.

[Moxio]

Yay! CAG is back! And a special thanks to defender and GT for housing us refugees during our time of need.

[Steggy]

damn it feels good to be a gangsta...

[Jrunt20x]

I'm glad it's back. My weekend was in the crapper without all my homies here. I did nothing all last night. No movies, no friends, no women... I was so bummed and then what I could always count on, my everything, my CAG, was gone!! :cry:

[whoknows]

I thought there was something wrong with my computer, then I called 4 different people and asked them if they could get on this site.

Glad its back up.

[Wshakspear]

...i actually got work donw and cleaned up a bit...it kinda hurts...

[Demontooth]

*Throws self on floor*....THANK GOD YOUR BACK!!!

[tdphillips]

I thought there was something wrong with my computer, then I called 4 different people and asked them if they could get on this site.

Glad its back up.

Same here. Happy days are here again. Cheap on!

[Ecofreak]

To be ever so humble, there's no place like home.

[hiccupleftovers]

Yay! CAG is back! And a special thanks to defender and GT for housing us refugees during our time of need.

Yes thanks all. And a thanks also goes out to all the people over at DCR, wivil, G, all.

[radjago]

I'm slowly overcoming the tremors and other withdrawal symptoms. It could be a long night.

On a more serious note, I wonder if someone could start a "backup board" so that when the main forums go down, we could have a place to congregate and talk about what's keeping it down and whatnot in the mean time. Just a cheap free forum setup that will do during down times.

[mtxbass1]

As much as it sucked that CAG was down, I found myself away from the computer and actually getting work done. *gasp*

[Legolas813]

On a more serious note, I wonder if someone could start a "backup board" so that when the main forums go down, we could have a place to congregate and talk about what's keeping it down and whatnot in the mean time. Just a cheap free forum setup that will do during down times.

That's a good idea to have an alternate place for everyone to go to if CAG ever goes down again. Where did the rest of you go?

[RBM]

To be ever so humble, there's no place like home.

I think it's "Be it ever so humble, there's still no place like home." ...as in, no place is as comfortable as your home, no matter how run-down it might be.

[WhipSmartBanky]

On a more serious note, I wonder if someone could start a "backup board" so that when the main forums go down, we could have a place to congregate and talk about what's keeping it down and whatnot in the mean time. Just a cheap free forum setup that will do during down times.

That's a good idea to have an alternate place for everyone to go to if CAG ever goes down again. Where did the rest of you go?

Some of us were using Defender's GameTour (http://www.gametour.com) site. Forum style is very similar to this one and it was pretty fun.

[RBM]

To be ever so humble, there's no place like home.

I think it's "Be it ever so humble, there's still no place like home." ...as in, no place is as comfortable as your home, no matter how run-down it might be.

[edit: dammit....typing that made me drop my fig newton on the ground! :censored: ]

[help1]

I was worried a bit but then I asked a mod and he said it was gonna be back up, BTW that JimmieMac auction hit the halo 2 boards at CAG and someone posted CAG's name..

[Ebraum]

Just wanted to say thank's to Cheapy & Co. Problem's on this site usually don't last very long before they are fixed. Can't stand to go a day without CAG.

[greendj27]

I was worried a bit but then I asked a mod and he said it was gonna be back up, BTW that JimmieMac auction hit the halo 2 boards at CAG and someone posted CAG's name..

Could you post a link to that thread? I would love to see what people said about it.

[dpac]

I clicked my shortcut on my browser for CAG at least 200 times. Most of it was unintentionally, just out of habit and whatnot.
It was hard to believe how much I tried to bring up CAG this weekend. I guess when I run out of places to go online, CAG is the place I always end up for more. (Don't worry, it's in the regular rotation, too.)

Oh, and for that song(?) quote, I believe it's: "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home," with two tied notes in "no" (and possibly in "there's" as well). I don't remember there being a "still" after "there's," either. I'm such a nitpicker. (And I hope I'm right!)

[thorbahn3]

So what happened CheapyD?

[Mr. Anderson]

Oh man, thank God CAG is back online. I didn't have anthing to do on the internet all weekend except oogle pr0n!

[FFMooglestar]

Awesome to see CAG back up.

On a side note, has anyone mentioned the CAG-O-MATIC is down?

I've been trying to use it but have had no luck.

[Monsta Mack]

Nice to see this website is back in one piece. I was rather worried myself.

I couldn't get my cheap on :(

[sabin23]

thank god CAG is back... I ended up going to lesser sites like dealrush and those forums are dead over there... speaking of dead, vg talk dissapeared recently. no big loss though but I wonder what happened to it.

[neocisco]

It's obvious what happened to CAG... (http://www.itsatrap.net/)

I should have known! :lol:

[epobirs]

I was in such bad shape from withdrawals I made over a dozen posts on this awful PSP site where nobody appears to understand the proper use of the shift key. Or punctuation. Or grammar. Or rational thought.

[epobirs]

All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.
All is well. Krusty will come.

[simpsonps121]

Good to have you back. I checked on 2 different computers about 20 times...

Well, at least I saved a lot of money. Funny, CAG has saved me a ton of money per title, but I have spent boatloads on games. My collection went from 20 or so to around 100. :-) CAG, thanks,
Thanks for all of the hard work.

Matthew

[onetrackmind]

nice to see the site back up, i was wondering what was going on all weekend.

[adamsappel]

speaking of dead, vg talk dissapeared recently. no big loss though but I wonder what happened to it.
I used to visit vg talk, then one day it just wasn't there anymore. I imagine former members migrated over here, maybe they could shed light on what went down.

[CheapyD]

Awesome to see CAG back up.

On a side note, has anyone mentioned the CAG-O-MATIC is down?

I've been trying to use it but have had no luck.

The CAG-O-Matic has been running later in the morning so that we may give you the most recent product feed from EBgames. We also had to slow it down some, as it was making the database "flip out" (thats the technical term). It should finish around 10:30am these days.
We are working on a way to get it to finish up earlier.
Thanks for your patience!

[CheapyD]

Ok, here is the short version of the story of the CAG outtage.

After the recent "hacking" incident, I was obviously concerned about security. I hired a server admin service that specialized in security. We found his posting on a website that is community of web admins.

Without getting too technical, he basically screwed up some stuff and then put up a firewall which blocked all admin access (himself included) to the server. We had to contact the hosting company (the place where the server lives) and they had to bring down the firewall from the console. The hosting company also says there was a hardware problem too, but that seems like a strange coincidence/unlikely.

Obviously I got a refund from the security company but the whole thing was a complete nightmare.

[MaskedPlague]

Ok, here is the short version of the story of the CAG outtage.

After the recent "hacking" incident, I was obviously concerned about security. I hired a server admin service that specialized in security. We found his posting on a website that is community of web admins.

Without getting too technical, he basically screwed up some stuff and then put up a firewall which blocked all admin access (himself included) to the server. We had to contact the hosting company (the place where the server lives) and they had to bring down the firewall from the console. The hosting company also says there was a hardware problem too, but that seems like a strange coincidence/unlikely.

Obviously I got a refund from the security company but the whole thing was a complete nightmare.

I see Wayne Knight (Newman) in Jurassic Park for some reason....

[Eric467]

Well I'm very glad CAG is back and functional. I am guilty though of pressing page refresh a ridiculous amount of times this weekend. I'm glad this wasn't the result of another attack too, that was my first thought as to why the site was down.

[javeryh]

Ok, here is the short version of the story of the CAG outtage.

After the recent "hacking" incident, I was obviously concerned about security. I hired a server admin service that specialized in security. We found his posting on a website that is community of web admins.

Without getting too technical, he basically screwed up some stuff and then put up a firewall which blocked all admin access (himself included) to the server. We had to contact the hosting company (the place where the server lives) and they had to bring down the firewall from the console. The hosting company also says there was a hardware problem too, but that seems like a strange coincidence/unlikely.

Obviously I got a refund from the security company but the whole thing was a complete nightmare.

That sounds like a whole lot of not fun.

[Kaijufan]

I'm glad that CAG is back up, but I really didn't check the site all that much. I only checked it once when I got on the net and sometimes right before I got off the net.
On the plus side I did get to post more then I normally get to on the other message boards I visit.

[darkshadows6000]

Ok, here is the short version of the story of the CAG outtage.

After the recent "hacking" incident, I was obviously concerned about security. I hired a server admin service that specialized in security. We found his posting on a website that is community of web admins.

Without getting too technical, he basically screwed up some stuff and then put up a firewall which blocked all admin access (himself included) to the server. We had to contact the hosting company (the place where the server lives) and they had to bring down the firewall from the console. The hosting company also says there was a hardware problem too, but that seems like a strange coincidence/unlikely.

Obviously I got a refund from the security company but the whole thing was a complete nightmare.



I don't understand why you got a refund. CAG was as secure as it could get. No one could get in. :P