Sitting-Duc

I have created an additional BF1 admin forum by request of JAYsus_NL here: https://www.xtremeidiots.com/forums/forum/214-bf1-discussion/ This is only view-able by the Battlefield admins and the senior team.

We use OVH for our dedicated server hosting and they provide an external firewall for some added protection, as such it would be silly for us not to utilise that as much as possible. One of the large benefits of using an external firewall is the DDOS protection that they offer and the tools for mitigation. With the help of Nostradewmus I have identified all the servers that we run on both boxes and we now have firewalls enabled for all IP addresses.

You can now search by IP Address on our Admin Portal website. The feature will allow admins to search by a full or partial IP Address and see any player profiles that have matches. This should aid in linking player accounts when players change GUIDs. This should still be used with caution as it is a known problem that the game servers can return garbled player data and therefore IP Addresses and player profile data is not 100% accurate or reliable. There have been two new pages added to the Admin Portal, the first is unclaimed bans and the second is 'my bans'. To access these new pages go to the game index page and then use the new navigation bar:

I have created a new fallen members page and added our fallen members from the past website over. It's very important that we remember those members that have passed away whilst wearing our tags as those members have been with us until their end and that dedication should be respected. The new page can be found here: https://www.xtremeidiots.com/fallen-members/ and there is a ;oink on the lower right of the home page.

I have migrated the old junior clan members list from the old version of the website to this one. This has involved creating a new database for the members and manually copying over the data (72 members). The new page will be maintained by ROCKAPE and he should be contacted if new entries need to be added or existing ones edited/removed. The new page can be found here: https://www.xtremeidiots.com/junior-members/ and there is a link on the main navigation bar under 'Members'

To support some of the games that our members are playing I have added three new forums, these are: ARMA2 Battlefield 1 Left 4 Dead 2 Along with that I have added game icons to all of the forums in the games forum section:

The ChatBox application we use has been updated, this should fix problems when viewing and using the website on mobile where the 'load more' button was not displaying.

So obviously updates are important as they keep the website and servers safe - this is especially apparent with the recent major Microsoft exploits becoming known and more so with the outbreak of ransomware yesterday! When organisations such as these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382 get hit by ransomware attacks they can generally recover - its allot harder for a group of our size that has very limited technical support. As such today I have updated the Operating System, core components such as Java. We also run Malwarebytes for protection on the server so that is now at the latest version and updated with the latest definitions.

This will be a running commentary of what goes into making the XtremeIdiots websites (yes there is more than one) and core services such as Teamspeak run. I generally only work on XtremeIdiots stuff during the weekends or when I am off work so this will be done in batches. I hope this helps people understand what goes into getting things running and the effort that is put in when things go wrong etc.