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Update regarding future of sBorg
3Dear clients and sBorg fans,
This is Somik, developer and co-owner of sBorg.
Due to some evens, Abhi mentioned that he might shut down sBorg servers in an event sBorg is decoded. I want to clarify that sBorg project will NOT stop due to the actions of a few individuals as that wont be fair to all those who supported us in the last 16 months. We have clients dating back to 1st October 2010 (when sBorg first started) and are still using sBorg regularly and have install tickets in their accounts. One such user is our client no. 55 who have been purchasing hosting account from us ever since. You have trusted and we wont be breaking that trust by suddenly going offline because we could not properly secure our script.
As for our licensing server, I’ll personally be making sure that it does not go down. In an event that we no longer have any paying clients and we cannot maintain the cost of the licensing server, we will move it to a shared hosting like we did for sBorg’s main website and forum. If you would like to help keep sBorg alive, you can do your part to help keep sBorg alive by simply donating, buying install tickets or hosting plans.
I realize that these are hard times. Almost all filehosts are either down or stopping their affiliate services. This gave rise to a lot of new filehosts. Although, as i am sure you all know, most of them will go down within a few months or so (some of them might even scam you), a few of them will remain and become big names in the future. So, once we are sure the filehosts has been around for 4~5 months and have good reputation, we will be adding these new filehosts into our sBorg. We are already working on our first list of filehosts to be added.
Remember that sBorg is here to stay.
If you have any problems with your sBorg, be sure to open a support ticket here: http://support.sborg.us/
Best wishes,
Somik Khan.
sBorg Dev.
Problem with USA server
5Our USA server was terminated due to the action of a client who direct linked illegal content from our server on his forum/site. Due to this, a notice was sent to our DC and they terminated our server immediately. Moreover, we are unable to order any more servers from the said DC due to violation of their TOS. In this case, we will not be using any USA based servers. If your hosting is on USA, please contact us and we’ll create a hosting account for you on our Europe server.
Free upgrade to sBorg v5.5 for hosted clients
3I’ve recieved several emails asking me this so i am going to post it here.
Upgrade/re-installation is free of charge on sBorg hosting plans. This means if you are hosted by us (sborg.us) you will receive a free upgrade to the latest version when you request it.
If you want us to upgrade/reinstall your sBorg, please note that all your data will be deleted. So please make a backup of all your important data, this includes your logs, forum template, post template, downloaded files, custom files (myfiles), stored account details etc.
After backing up is completed, create a support ticket and we will proceed with upgrade/re-installation.
sBorg 5.4 is here
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The long awaited sBorg v5.4 is finally available! How to upgrade: http://forums.sborg.us/thread-87.html
After over 2 months in development, countless hours of coding and recoding has finally paid off! We have done it! We have made sBorg download multiple files at once! Yes, you read it right, we have made sBorg download multiple files simultaneously! This means if you enter 10 links at once, sBorg will start downloading all 10 files side by side. You remember us saying PHP wasn’t multi-threaded so we cant do something like that? Well it turns out there are some functions that can be used by advanced level programmers to do multi-threaded (or simultanious) downloading.
It wasn’t easy to understand (as you know, we are not advanced level programmers) so we had been working on it secretly for the past 6 months, 4 months of which we are trying to understand the basics, and the last 2 months, recoding sBorg to implement the modified downloader function that is able to perform simultaneous downloading by the help of virtual multi-threading.
However that is not all we did. We realized that if an abuser starts to download 100 files at once, its bad for a reseller, where as you might want to download 100 files if you are hosted on a personal super sized server. So, we’ve added an option to set the “number of connections (or simultaneous downloads) an user can run” on install page. The default value of 50 is for personal servers, where as resellers may want to lower it to a more reliable value that fits their server.
We’ve also added a master control switch to sBorg’s index page. This will let you KILL all sBorg instances at once! Did something wrong or want to stop your running sBorg process? Just go to index page, set master switch to “Stopped”. This will stop all sBorg processes and prevent running of new processes. When you want to use sBorg again, just set it to “Active”.
From now on, sBorg will generate both BB codes for forums and HTML codes for sites together! Both post templates will be mailed to you (and saved in logs file) so that you can just copy paste it to any forum or site of your choice.
We’ve received a lot of requests for filehost download plugins, so we’ve added Wupload, Uploaded.to and Uploadstation download plugins!
Thats just a few of the new features of the latest sBorg! If you want to know all of them, just read through the full feature list bellow.
Full changelog for sBorg 5.4:
- Added simultaneous download support (virtual multi-threading).
– Added option to limit number of simultaneous connections on install page.
– Added dual post template output with BB code & HTML code.
– Added Wupload download plugin.
– Added Uploaded.to download plugin.
– Added Uploadstation download plugin.
– Added Mediafire download plugin (works even without a mediafire account).
– Added filehost upload server tracker.
– Added clickable sBorg file download links.
– Added transmission start/stop to sBorg’s setup page.
– Added Linksafe redirected download plugin.
– Added custom download link tag.
– Added auto generation of clickable links.
– Added option to make URL’s clickable.
– Added a “stop” button to stop current transloads.
– Set safelinking display links as live.
– Fixed bandwidth meter bug for uploading.
– Fix IMDB plugin.
– Fix security issues.
– Fix screenshot plugin.
– Fixed sBorg posting issue with some vBulletin boards.
– Fixed Filesonic download plugin.
– Fixed Fileserve download plugin.
– Fixed Fileserve upload plugin.
– Fixed Mediafire login issue.
– Fixed Filesonic upload plugin.
– Fixed Rapidshare upload plugin.
– Fixed Rapidshare download plugin (download file size issue).
– Fixed various small bugs.
Updates
– Added queue system for simultaneous download.
– Fixed SMF autoposter.
– Fixed IMDB date bug.
– Fixed upload bandwidth bug.
– Fixed Uploadstation download plugin.
– Recoded Filesonic regular upload plugin for better speeds.
Going overseas soon
2As many of you already know, I’ll be leaving for Singapore on 8th July, Friday, to register for Masters in Electronic at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Once there, I wont have 24 hour Internet access for the first week. So during this time, support tickets and orders may be processed slower then usual.
The forum will be maintained by our moderators and Halcyon. Remember that forum support is much faster then regular support tickets so post your problem in the forum before opening a support ticket. Also, search the forum before opening a support request thread though as we have already solved most of the basic problems. If you are a sBorg client and your problem is not solved via the forum, be sure to open a support ticket.
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sBorg Dev