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It looks like the HackQuest server is broken again (it is a windows box).
Unfortunately SkyFlash is the only one with access to the remote reboot functionality.
I have sent him an email about the situation on Jan 14th but have had no response yet.

So until Skylash reads his email and reboots the server, HackQuest will be down

The HackQuest server is back on-line!

Now added to HackQuest: a "Discussion Afterward" forum!

I'm really quite fond of HackQuest. I don't really understand the complaints. Very, very good discussion board too. You can work out a lot if you read carefully but you still have to work for it.

And... FF has worked for me so far.

Does anyone know why HackQuest is down now?

HackQuest is down for the same reason as old wechall server:

Two hosting companies have fusioned into one, and Kender`s server will be unreachable for a while.

This is affecting hackquest, bitbath, wechall, and maybe some other sites.

For wechall, In a rush, we have setup wechall on a different box, with an outdated database.
As i was working on wechall4 quite a while, i decided to switch to wechall4.

Yes, the situation is quite nasty and I fear my server will be offline for a while longer.

I bought my server and the management and the colocation for it with Redunix a couple of years ago.
Redunix was a small business owned by a man named Sam.
Last year Sam needed money so he merged with Kronos which is a company owned by a man named Fred.
Fred has the majority share in redunix from then on.
But Sam needed more money so he started stealing/diverting money from Redunix to himself in secret from bills that should have been paid to one of the datacenters they leased rackspace in.
Last week friday morning that datacenter cut the IP connection for redunix because they had not been paid (Sam diverted Freds money to his own accounts)
This caused a lot of servers to become unreachable. And it cut the connection to the other major datacenter they has servers in.
Unfortunately the backup connection to this datacenter turned out to still be owned by Sam. He diverted it to point to the new company he was just starting.
Also unfortunately Sam had stolen the entire administration of Redunix so that Fred did not even know who his customer were.

My server is located in the datacenter that the re-routed IP-range pointed to so it is not reachable.
Fred is working on getting those machines new IP adresses and connectivity but since this concerns over 400 servers and the administration of them (owners, routes, names, etc.) is stolen it is going to take a lot of time.
Meanwhile Sam is offering offline customers to come to his new hosting company and is offering to put backups in place on new servers with the old IP adresses (so he has stolen the backup servers as well)

All in all there is a lot of fraud, mud-slinging, theft, confusion, miscommunication going on while thousands and thousands of websites are offline. Most of these are commercial so people are losing money over this too.
Since my server is only a hobby server and my damages are only inconvenience to the visitors and not financial, I have not raced to the datacenter to grab my machine and host it elsewhere yet. I want the dust to settle a bit first.

So now you know why WeChall moved so suddenly (thanks Gizmore, for the fast response) and why HackQuest is offline (I do not own the domain, only skyflash can point it to another server with an explanation message) as well as bitbath.org.

I can still hardly believe this is really happening and I wish to sincerely apologize to all users.

Cheers,
Kender

OMG, this looks like a Z history / challenge ! Thanks Kender for the complete explanation and thanks Gizmore for the great job !!

Wow! That is quite a mess. Good luck to you-- Gizmore, Kender, Skyflash, anyone else effected-- getting things back in order.

Hackquest is back.Just to say if someone didn't notice,link is still red.Good to see that site again...