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by Stephan Schmidt.
Original Post: Forum back online
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As some of you may have noticed, our forum at http://forum.php-tools.net has been offline for the last two weeks. The cause has been that someone hacked our server and used it for file-sharing which caused a lot of traffic, which we have to pay for. As the hacker used a security hole in phpBB (which has been fixed in newer versions, but our installation wasn't up to date), which we used as a forum software, we decided to disable or forum until we had evaluated, whether to install a different software.
Since today, our forum is back online, but we switched from phpBB to FUDForum, as we experienced several problems with phpBB during the last year and FUDForum seems to be a lot more secure. Thanks to a lot of help from Ilia, I also was able to import all userdata and all postings from the old software so you can still login with the same username and read the old postings. A big "THANK YOU" for this from the pat team to Ilia, this has been the best support we experienced for an open-source product.
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