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[Emiliano]

Your typo!

Fixed ↑

[Norbert]

--Finished-----
Temple of Darkness by Youran Tumayel (yourantumayel69)
Amogh's Levelset 2 by Amogh Datar (atrueprincefanfrom18)
Journey In Mystery by Ahmed Bousrih (Sting)
Indonesian Sweet Dreams by Youran Tumayel (yourantumayel69)
Root Planet by Emiliano Fierro

Thanks for the overview.
I've added these five mods to PoPOT.

[atrueprincefanfrom18]

Just turned off "everything" (email notifier) for my account, disabled all the enabled notifiers for each mod and then turned "everything" notifier back again to clean up profile a bit...

I am experiencing that images are not cached for PoPOT. Is there any specific reason because of which you have explicitly turned it off Norbert?

That is making the website too slower to use, especially here in India, where there are not too good, stable and faster connections. You can cache the images and other content (actually trick videos too, as they are not updated again and again) by setting Cache-Control and other headers.

You can also look on using CloudFlare. They have the free plan and it's a great CDN (Content Delivery Network) with DDoS protection and free SSL certificate. I use them for all my projects and it's a good starter. With that, maybe you won't need more bandwidth (just in case you are charged too much for it).

Let me know if you have any queries and/or if you decide to use it.

[Norbert]

[...] are not cached for PoPOT.

Should be different now.
I've changed some settings.

[atrueprincefanfrom18]

Should be different now.
I've changed some settings.

Working great now, thank you!

[Norbert]

Since early 24 August, various Dutch companies are experiencing DDoS attacks.
One news website has written about this.
PoPOT is on one of the many affected servers, and may experience downtime.

[Norbert]

Since early 24 August, various Dutch companies are experiencing DDoS attacks.
One news website has written about this.
PoPOT is on one of the many affected servers, and may experience downtime.

New Zealand stock exchange also hit by a DDoS for the 2nd day in a row.
https://www.bbc.com/news/53918580

[atrueprincefanfrom18]

New Zealand stock exchange also hit by a DDoS for the 2nd day in a row.
https://www.bbc.com/news/53918580

That's serious!

[Norbert]

Since early 24 August, various Dutch companies are experiencing DDoS attacks.
One news website has written about this.
PoPOT is on one of the many affected servers, and may experience downtime.

Another Dutch-language article about the DDoS attacks.
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/171522/ddos ... iders.html

[atrueprincefanfrom18]

Another Dutch-language article about the DDoS attacks.
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/171522/ddos ... iders.html

I'm curious why people don't use free tools like CloudFlare.

[Norbert]

I'm curious why people don't use free tools like CloudFlare.

I don't trust big US companies. Last year, Cloudflare had $200M+ revenue. Using Cloudflare DDoS protection means putting them between the visitors and website, possibly including a new SSL certificate (see the one used by fbi.gov). Additionally, Cloudflare could decide to monetize data obtained from monitoring traffic.

[atrueprincefanfrom18]

I don't trust big US companies. Last year, Cloudflare had $200M+ revenue. Using Cloudflare DDoS protection means putting them between the visitors and website, possibly including a new SSL certificate (see the one used by fbi.gov). Additionally, Cloudflare could decide to monetize data obtained from monitoring traffic.

Yeah, you are right in some way, but after all you have to secure your website (especially if you are earning revenue by keeping your website active) and save your website from DDoS (again, especially if you are using Apache and not nginx).

And yes, CloudFlare has such revenue because other businesses, who want more features pay them and I guess their expense for the paid features is almost negligible.

I don't think they monetize it, but they show us some analytics like which country is on the top from your visitors list, number of attacks blocked, how much data was served directly from it's servers, etc.

Also, you can block/challenge/JS challenge the IPs or the ranges of them. There are really great features and I think everyone should try it at least once.

But anyway, use whatever works for you

[atrueprincefanfrom18]

Norbert, I have forgotten my PoPOT.org account password, could you please PM me a resetted random password or send an email?

User profile is this. Thanks.

P.S: This profile also belongs to me and I have forgotten password for this as well!

I keep such a strong password, that I forget the same!

I request you to delete that account.

[Norbert]

Norbert, I have forgotten my PoPOT.org account password [for two users, and] I request you to delete [the latter].

As you've seen, I've sent you a new password. It works for both accounts.
Deleting accounts is currently not possible, but it's one of the things I'm working on.

[Norbert]

Currently, some mods at popot.org are attached to inactive accounts that are not actual user accounts.
Where possible, I would like to attach these mods to user accounts.

Two examples:
- user NITM-T and inactive account NITM-T (Tâmison)
- user atrueprincefanfrom2018 and inactive account Amogh Datar

To attach these mods to user accounts, I need to know:
1. Does the inactive account (e.g. Amogh Datar) have a user account (e.g. atrueprincefanfrom2018) ?
2. If so, which of the two account names does the mod author prefer to use ?

Inactive accounts that have mods attached are:

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4DPlayer
Ahmed Bousrih (Sting)
Amogh Datar
Aram Sev.
Ararat5165
Armen Miqayelyan (ArmFly)
Ataa
augiasz
AuraDragon
Avril Harrison
Barre
Brendon James
Butcher
Citro
Clavio
Clive Dent (jeminacek)
Coco
CoNaZ
Dark77
Darth Marsden
David
DKM
Dmitriy Berketov
Dmitry S.
doppelgänger
dspprince
Eagle-Head Priest
Edward Simon
Faldyrer
floppy / lignux
hanswurst
hjalmar (Crazy Diamond)
Hobbit
Hummel
Ipank7000
iso
Istaria (Eowendyl)
Jaffar24
Jakubbw
Jalal Noureddine
John van Ryn
jora
Jordan Mechner
juliano_did
Kaslghnoon
KingOfPersia
Kirill A. Terebilov
Lance Groody
Lich (Devil) of Computer Pirates Studio
LIONKINGSKHALID
Maurice Kaltofen (mk1995)
Mek
Micheal Muniko (mickey96, musa)
Mike
mmitch
Moscow Tracer
Nicolas Normand
NITM-T (Tâmison)
opr (codevip)
Piligrim
popman
Princechex
princeomkar
programmer
Scott Elliott (tacosalad)
shadowface_gaming
spartacus735
starwindz
Steven Fayers (ecco)
stiven202
Sweaty Scout (ten_z_palacu)
Talpa (E.V.)
teterilla (Tetera)
The Edster
Thijmen
Tolle
toteman
tV2
Unknown
Veke
Wolfgang P. (elmaton)
xhul
zethholyblade

If you see yourself listed among the inactive accounts above, even though you have an actual user account, please answer the two questions.
Thanks.