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Answered: User registration on this website will be fully back online soon

Thu, 14 May 2026 18:51:51 +0000

I totally understand why you had to turn the registration off and on.

If you use Cloudflare, I would set under attack mode on and see if it stops the malicious user bots signing up?

I run a forum myself and had been getting lots of malicious signups and had to turn on under attack mode temporarily and the malicious bots stopped.

However you can't just leave the under attack mode on as it will also block Google search bots and other good bots and even some legit users.

But it's a temporary measure, while real users can signup and then you can turn it back off and then turn the user registration back off for awhile again.

Hopefully you find a way to stop the malicious bots.

My own forum and blog was taken down during the Cpanel hack but thankfully I had some offsite backups and got it back online on a new server.

Answered: User registration is temporary turned off due to bot activity signing up for spam accounts

Wed, 06 May 2026 17:13:01 +0000

That's completely understandable.

I run a forum and get an influx of bots signing up and have to ban them and it's a lot of work.
I have a few people helping me, which helps some.

I to have to turn the registration off for awhile, especially if I get a lot of bots signing up and can't be available to moderate it.

When I do turn registration on to my forum, I'll watch the signups and if there's a bunch of bots, I'll band them and delete their accounts right away.

Answered: Unable to upload pictures on answerpail.com questions and answers?

Mon, 04 May 2026 03:59:57 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about this issue.

It seems to be a bug, which should hopefully be fixed soon.
Due to the Cpanel Hack that occurred on lots of websites and hosting accounts, our database and even backups of this website got corrupted.

So I had to move this website over to a different server as the server also got corrupted and I needed to isolate this website from the old host.

We are on a completely new server, with a new hosting company.

The only good thing that came out of this Cpanel hack and lost data is that this website got updated to a much newer version, which is also better for search engine optimization.

The Cpanel system has been patched and updated to prevent further issues and the server operating system has also been updated and patched.

I had been working tirelessly to restore the website and get it back.

I had backups on the hosts server which were on different servers, but even those were corrupted and so the data could not be saved.

The host worked with me very good and did an excellent job and tried everything they could to help save the data, but sadly we couldn't.

The data was there, but the database was corrupt and so moving it over to the new server was not possible and it could also pose security risks if it were uploaded to the new server.

If anyone runs Cpanel on their servers and you control the servers then make sure you update the Cpanel to the latest version and force the update to ensure that it's secure.

Otherwise your website is still at risk.

But if you're using shared hosting then your host should've already patched and updated the Cpanel.