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OffG is back online

currently running at around 80%

Tuesday night (BST) our infrastructure went on the fritz for reasons we’re still trying to figure out. After consultations with server managers and hours of debugging we now have the site back at about 80% functionality.

There are still some issues, and we still don’t know what happened. Maybe some type of perfect storm of minor issues combined t create a major issue. Or maybe there are other factors. We haven’t on this occasion seen any evidence of an attack and no malware has been located.

However we do note there were some odd goings-on with browser autofills just before this happened.

We’re hoping to be back to full power some time tomorrow (Friday). Meantime please share this.

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Kathy
Kathy
Oct 26, 2019 6:06 PM

Welcome back. I am glad you are up and running again. It was quite odd wading through the MSM papers without my daily dose of sanity and real perspective that you at Off G and majority of comments offer. Thanks all for all you do.

mark
mark
Oct 25, 2019 8:12 PM

Probably our chums at 77 Brigade doing their stuff.

Editor
Editor
Oct 25, 2019 6:20 PM

Thanks from all of us to all of you kind people sending us support and welcoming us back. It’s good to be amongst you all again!

tonyopmoc
tonyopmoc
Oct 25, 2019 7:03 PM
Reply to  Editor

Great to see you back. It will probably get a lot worse yet. I have no idea where you host your stuff, but you are obviously having an effect, and winning the argument. If you were crap, you would be ignored.

Well done and Thanks. I guess I should send you some money for Christmas.

Tony

Philip Roddis
Philip Roddis
Oct 25, 2019 2:56 PM

Much relieved to have you back!

Formulas
Formulas
Oct 25, 2019 2:18 PM

“we still don’t know what happened”

Assnage is in a bad state, he’s been effectively tortured. That’s one thing that we learnt.

Controlled Mass Media must pay the price for their silence.

A few days ago, a commenter predicted this website will disappear in 2 years.
Don’t you think, he’s very optimistic?

Maggie
Maggie
Oct 25, 2019 3:18 PM
Reply to  Formulas

No Formulas, not optimistic, just realistic. The establishment will NOT allow free speech, especially when it exposes all their dirty games.
And the controlled Media Presstitutes are already being paid handsomely for their silence, and are even given knighthoods depending on the influence they can bring to bare on the idiot proles. So I don’t see what other payment you think they will receive?

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Oct 25, 2019 10:57 PM
Reply to  Maggie

“So I don’t see what other payment you think they will receive?”

How’s your new sundial, Maggie? All ticktockety-boo?

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Oct 25, 2019 10:53 PM
Reply to  Formulas

“A few days ago, a commenter predicted this website will disappear in 2 years.” Only if we let it. Some time ago I offered to run a mirror but I have since come to realize that that just duplicates the centralization that facilitates attacks and that a better solution is to start with existing services such as Tor hidden services or Freenet, then develop a more sophisticated, granular approach combining useful bits of those existing methods with as-yet uninvented methods, like–say–a granular, dynamically distributed and retrieved, co-operatively donated, geographically-scattered, realtime-reconstructed RAID-like database, as when writing and reading a file to and from a highly fragmented, encrypted disk, in some sort of Distributed Assurance of Service (“DAoS”). As far as I’m aware, the amazing connectivity of the current WWW, with many of its pages being assembled from multiple, geographically discrete, client-and-server-coordinated sources, including realtime-auctioned advertisements, took a bit of ingenuity to… Read more »

JudyJ
JudyJ
Oct 25, 2019 11:01 AM

Thank goodness, and well done. In your absence I felt seriously alone in my thoughts. I live on my own and whilst my border collie is intelligent it’s not that fruitful to bounce thoughts off her! Glad to have my worldwide ‘extended family’ back!

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Oct 25, 2019 3:23 PM
Reply to  JudyJ

What a beautifully profound comment, JudyJ: that any Border Collie can relate to, when listening up at a distance and understands full well, (when herding sheep), together … 😉

Faithful Greetings,
Tim

Maggie
Maggie
Oct 25, 2019 3:52 PM
Reply to  JudyJ

Hi Judy, There are other sites you can keep up to date with, and can comment on all of them.. I often leave the sound on the pertinent videos while I read and take part in Off Guardian..
Take a peek at these:
UK Column – https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news-archive
Ryan Dawson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeKm5QhEAwo (911) This lad hits the nail every time. He has had to move out and lives somewhere in Japan now but the agencies are hot on his tail…
Veterans Today – https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/10/24/assange-extradition/
RT – https://www.rt.com/
Craig Murray – https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
Jimmy Dore – primarily US news but totally perceptive when he covers UK- https://jimmydorecomedy.com/watch/
James Corbett – https://www.corbettreport.com/

JudyJ
JudyJ
Oct 25, 2019 5:19 PM
Reply to  Maggie

Thanks, Maggie. I shall certainly venture to look at these other sites. I do already occasionally post comments on Craig Murray’s blog (but under a different ‘pen name’ – and, no, I’m not @SharpEars or the erstwhile @Charles Bostock!). But OffG is very much my favourite for various reasons.

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Oct 25, 2019 11:13 PM
Reply to  Maggie

“Ryan Dawson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeKm5QhEAwo (911)”

Hadn’t seen this guy before. I don’t think he’ll get very far. Not enough bullshit.

Maggie
Maggie
Oct 26, 2019 12:45 PM
Reply to  Robbobbobin

Really Rob? I thought that was what we were trying to eliminate on Off G.
Ryan has been investigating for twenty years and ALL his findings are INVALUABLE to those of us seeking the absolute truth.
He has been taken down too many times to even post here, but continues regardless.
Do yourself a favour and make it your goal to watch everything he posts.. Begin here:

It’s over two hours long but you can leave the sound running while you get on with other business if inclined?
It takes a lot of concentration to absorb everything Ryan says. I have watched/listened four times.
Everything he says can be cross referenced.
I thank him for every minute he has dedicated to bringing the truth to us. And the fact that he has been driven out of his home and country, but still refuses to stop.

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Oct 26, 2019 7:27 PM
Reply to  Maggie

“Really Rob? I thought that [bullshit] was what we were trying to eliminate on Off G.” Try reading what I wrote again. I did not reference the Off-G. “…he has been driven out of his home and country…” For instance. “…you can leave the sound running while you get on with other business if inclined?” I am so inclined, but I can’t do it. When it comes to absorbing information I can’t multitask. “Podcasts” are useless for me–I have to keep stopping and replaying every few sentences even in single tasking mode. Lectures were hell. They’re why, before the days of personal audio recorders, I learned shorthand. Even transcripts take me longer, often far longer, to get through than (it seems) they do for others, but at least they’re quicker to digest than original audio or video. In the short 911 clip you referenced (which worked for me, incidentally) take–for… Read more »

Maggie
Maggie
Oct 26, 2019 1:45 PM
Reply to  Robbobbobin

Rob, I sent you a Ryan Dawson link previously.
When attempting to pick it up again ‘after’ it stated it was inaccessible……
So here’s another:
https://archive.org/details/youtube-hCY8fDbtXSA

Gwyn
Gwyn
Oct 25, 2019 10:53 AM

It’s great to have you back, Off-G. Keep doing what you do.

Cicatriz
Cicatriz
Oct 25, 2019 9:16 AM

It might just be a run of the mill hardware or software fault, but you never can be too sure these days. Just look at what happened to the ever diligent DNC. Come to think of it, have you guys thought of hiring Crowdstrike?

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Oct 25, 2019 3:36 PM
Reply to  Cicatriz

Or Imran AWAN ?

Oh wait, he’s already in prison. Damn the Dems. sure do pick’em and some mothers
do ‘ave ’em 😉

Cicatriz
Cicatriz
Oct 25, 2019 10:21 PM
Reply to  Tim Jenkins

Yeah. I was forgetting about the Awan brothers. Didn’t they have a large cache of hard disk drives squirrelled away? Just the guys you need for a few spares.

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Oct 26, 2019 11:58 AM
Reply to  Cicatriz

The Awan brothers are all out of spares, after their lift shaft depository was revealed & emptied, as plea bargain by Imran: but you could check with any democratic investigator of the Awan brothers, in case they are doing a car boot sale of left over, bleach-bitten servers that they don’t want the FBI to find, ‘Cash’ like, obviously … Imran is inside: Intel. guys pressured him to reveal the location of said cache, however, curiously, his brother is already dead, ‘officially’, after accelerating his Tesla into a tree, whereupon it caught fire: and just to be sure, lol, it caught fire again, after it was Extinguished & Delivered to the police compound, extinguished again, just to make sure all & any evidence was destroyed … except maybe teeth ? Don’ ask me. Best ask Imran, who’ll be out (amazingly), in 4 years time, but, best be quick coz’, you… Read more »

Cicatriz
Cicatriz
Oct 26, 2019 2:25 PM
Reply to  Tim Jenkins

I hadn’t heard that about his brother. Just goes to show; I try and keep up with the ongoing procedural drama that is the FBI/CIA/DNC/GOP Game of Thrones and but it’s just not possible.

It does make wonder about Tesla. Barely a day goes by without one of them doing something fatally disastrous. Some ready made plausible deniability right there. No wonder the government kept handing them money.

Antonym
Antonym
Oct 26, 2019 12:05 PM
Reply to  Tim Jenkins

Former IT aide Imran Awan received no jail time Tuesday after a federal judge said he had “suffered enough.”

Imran choked back tears, saying, “We want to thank the prosecution, the FBI and the Capitol Police,” while his lawyer submitted a letter referring to President Donald Trump, Sen. Chuck Grassley and other Republications as “deranged,” “pathetic” and “without a shred of decency.”

https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/imran-awan-no-jail-time-hospital/

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Oct 26, 2019 12:26 PM
Reply to  Antonym

Crunch 🙂 you could have mentioned the juicy Dems. bits first and foremost their systems of background checks on Government Personnel. “Suffered enough”? Compared to Assange ? Sense the contempt, absurdity & double standards ? Maybe, Julian should make an urgent plea on behalf of his father’s legacy,
if Dad could just feign some illness …
Pass the soap. (Real dirty hands that ‘feed’ BS, quite clearly compromised …)

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Oct 26, 2019 7:37 PM
Reply to  Tim Jenkins

“Or Imran AWAN ?”

In this instance, “Crowdstrike” is a more directly relevant suggestion than “AWAN”.

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Oct 25, 2019 9:10 AM

Well done ‘guys’: better safe than sorry, in these times of not just fake news, moreover, FAKE EMAILS are an existential threat to every & any innocent person’s ‘Liberty’, quite literally ! Think about it, Fascism pure 100% ! With no recourse . . . The Guilty Evil Intelligence (grounded in & interconnected physically to the parallel platforms run by our National Security States), is out of control and running very scared, like a cornered Rat, it will bite and is biting right now: and of course, it is no coincidence that Julian Assange was in court this week and OffG is one of the few places we could have found some UNCENSORED OBJECTIVITY, on this appalling, outrageous, disgusting, cowardly contravention of elementary Human Rights. Sickening UK JUDGES ! We are now playing ‘Catchup’, which was always the Deep State way & goal: and highly likely the reason why OffG… Read more »

kidocelot
kidocelot
Oct 25, 2019 9:08 AM

Welcome back you were missed. The best of information comes from here!

John Thatcher
John Thatcher
Oct 25, 2019 8:49 AM

Welcome back.

UreKismet
UreKismet
Oct 25, 2019 8:49 AM

Sorry about yer troubles that’s life right now innit, trying to decide if a day is unlucky or if it has some malign intent. Still generally we’re protected by a basic fact, that the forces of darkness are pretty dim.
Anyway harry the paypal sent a coupla quid with the intent you put yerself outside a drink.

George Mc
George Mc
Oct 25, 2019 7:36 AM

Thank God for that! Your absence scared the shit out of me there! And this statement got me thinking:

“We haven’t on this occasion seen any evidence of an attack …. However we do note there were some odd goings-on …”

Yes – it seems that the internet is undergoing such curious mutations that it might be getting more and more difficult to identify malarky.

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Oct 25, 2019 11:41 PM
Reply to  George Mc

“… it seems that the internet is undergoing such curious mutations that it might be getting more and more difficult to identify malarky.”

Have you ever talked to Microsoft’s parrot when something unexplained brings down your system and it’s 18.5 miles of unrelated-to-anything-with-half-a-brain code and you turm to them for “support”? It goes like this: “Squawk, squawk, have you tried re-installing Windows, sir?” And that’s only one shitty, unreliable software barf-bag. The Internet is millions of the fucking things in all sorts of different shapes and colours, all trying to “communicate” with each other at once.

George Mc
George Mc
Oct 26, 2019 9:38 AM
Reply to  Robbobbobin

Sometimes I think the internet is like a vast pitch black cavern in which you can hear plenty of voices but never see anyone. So you never know who you are talking to. And a lot of people are good at giving a misleading impression of themselves e.g. by coming on like authoritative smartarses when a few comments later they seem to crack and I end up feeling guilty of causing distress to people who really couldn’t take it. Indeed sometimes I think I may be talking to kids. And I have even had suspicions that some people are not people at all but software. To riff on your Tower of Babel image, the internet sometimes looks like a nest of demons weaving illusions.

Antonym
Antonym
Oct 25, 2019 6:39 AM

What is the 20% not running here?

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Oct 25, 2019 5:59 AM

Welcome back Offguardian 😀. Hopefully things will be fully back to normal soon. I noticed very weird things happening with Offg the last few days before you went off air, as others did also.

vexarb
vexarb
Oct 25, 2019 5:35 AM

Great to see OffG weather yet another electronic storm.

Hope
Hope
Oct 25, 2019 5:14 AM

Good to see you back!

mikee
mikee
Oct 25, 2019 3:11 AM

where’z me previous comment

is this the fraudian???

mikee
mikee
Oct 25, 2019 3:30 AM
Reply to  mikee

thank you

mikee
mikee
Oct 25, 2019 3:10 AM

WHAT ABOUT JULIAN!!!!!????

ZigZagWanderer
ZigZagWanderer
Oct 25, 2019 1:55 AM

Meghan Markle’s feelings have been really really hurt and all offG can do is bang on about it’s site being paralysed.

Bal S
Bal S
Oct 25, 2019 3:14 AM
Reply to  ZigZagWanderer

If I were her i’d avoid travelling in any tunnels in Paris for the foreseeable future.

mark
mark
Oct 28, 2019 1:08 AM
Reply to  Bal S

I’d steer clear of any grassy knolls as well.

Frank Speaker
Frank Speaker
Oct 25, 2019 1:26 AM

I’ve been saying for months that the site has had issues since the upgrade. Glad to see you’re back up and running.

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Oct 25, 2019 11:49 PM
Reply to  Frank Speaker

“I’ve been saying for months that the site has had issues since the upgrade.”

It was not just an upgrade, it was a major reconstruction, and someone/s has been diligently addressing the resultant problems, in the inevitable, two-steps-forward, one-step-backwards ever since. You hadn’t noticed either?

Frank Speaker
Frank Speaker
Oct 27, 2019 3:03 PM
Reply to  Robbobbobin

Yes, I noticed it all, and commented about it at the time.

“You hadn’t noticed”

?

Lysias
Lysias
Oct 25, 2019 1:17 AM

Now that you’re back, I hope that you make your readers aware of the totalitarian nature of the kangaroo court proceeding that Assange faced earlier in the week. Craig Murray posted on his site a terrifying eyewitness account.

Martin Usher
Martin Usher
Oct 25, 2019 12:57 AM

Nice to see you back…..you’ve been missed. It seems that anyone who wants to exercise their skills in website hardening needs to volunteer to host the site or a mirror.

forester
forester
Oct 25, 2019 12:39 AM

every time I tried to reach your site, the url would say you are not authorized to view this site. or the internet hosting service would interrupt the inquiry and try to determine my ip.. and other data.. found scripts on my machine.. after leaving attempts to view your site.. glad you are back.. Trump is staying in Syria to protect the oil? Is that right?

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Oct 25, 2019 9:28 AM
Reply to  forester

Officially, (as was predictable, and I did), Trump is moving Troops to Saudi Arabia at Saudi Cost, (SA must pay for US Military) and a Russian MP (MilPol) can be seen driving through Manbij & other areas.

How the Rothschilds’ investments in Kurdish Oil & Gas reserves pans out, remains to be seen, given that it belongs to Syria & Assad and of course, to Iraq.

If you make deals with the devil, then you suffer the consequences and the Kurds have clearly learnt the hard way, who is who …

Brian Steere
Brian Steere
Oct 25, 2019 10:52 AM
Reply to  forester

Be aware that browsers can be configured behind scenes and by user config to limit access. ‘Warn me of dangerous or fraudulent sites’ may be the nature of the checkbox in your browser prefs/properties. I notice plausibly deniable glitches can occur in connecting to sites that are ‘mapped out’ that sometimes resolve on retry but usually are fine switching browser. So be willing to try alternate browsers. Perhaps including Tor. A lot of ‘censoring’ occurs by allowing direct link but not showing in ‘related links’ or searches. EG: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/congressman-posey-questions-mark-zuckerberg-about-vaccine-safety-information-censorship/ Reflections on the theme… The protectors of the henhouse are also protecting the foxes who run it. No point blaming the hens – nor an easy way to warn without seeming to be the dissonant one. I am convinced this runs much deeper than baddies and the good guys – and that that narrative ‘identifiction’ is the principle censor, block and… Read more »

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Oct 25, 2019 3:30 PM
Reply to  forester

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/24/us-troops-staying-in-syria-to-keep-the-oil-have-already-killed-hundreds/

To qualify my previous comment, temporarily, yes, but No ! Xi, Putin & Assad will not tolerate further US activities in Syria, in the longterm. The U$A will be relieved of their self-assumed illegitimate responsibilities, step by step … by my reckoning, even they may end up in a legal battle for damages from sponsoring terrorists. We’ll see …

Maggie
Maggie
Oct 25, 2019 4:38 PM
Reply to  forester

”Trump staying in Syria to protect the oil?”
Do you mean to protect their Mercenary Army ISIS who control all Syria’s oil?.
https://ig.ft.com/sites/2015/isis-oil/

If you need proof, then watch these:
https://abeldanger.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-us-created-isis-terrorist-mercenary.html

Lulu
Lulu
Oct 25, 2019 12:19 AM

Marvellous to hear you are up & running again – I had begun to wonder if something was amiss…
You were certainly missed! Please do keep up the great work!

Dungroanin
Dungroanin
Oct 25, 2019 12:17 AM

Phew .. welcome back guys. Got worried when you stopped twitting too!
Good luck.

Loverat
Loverat
Oct 25, 2019 2:18 AM
Reply to  Dungroanin

Must admit I was fairly amused at the O G tweet explaining the problem. Something which included similar to’ the site is fried’ and ‘ We’re still trying to work out wtf is going on’ .

Refreshingly honest and better than the pretentious technical waffle you often read when a site is experiencing issues.