Dear vBulletin Forum Community - vBSEO is Suspending Operations

Can you imagine how 6 year old SEO software can be better and more modern than 6 years of vbSEO updates?

 

Update posted:
http://admin-talk.com/threads/vbseo-com-transition-an-open-letter-to-juan-muriente-vbseo-ceo.43693/

 

All I can contribute is invest in paper products like tissues and toilet paper. Sad for all involved.

 

It does seem that vbseo is kaput -website down, emails being returned undeliverable, no activity.

PROBLEM IS - I am running a vbulletin 3.8.7 licensed forum. On this forum I was running vbseo 3.3.2 and all was well. vbseo convinced me to upgrade at least to 3.5.0 PL2 and I finally got 'round to doing it yesterday. Well, as soon as I upgraded the links on the forum stopped being optimized and tables and images stopped loading properly.

Is there any way to get some support for this issue? I would be happy to revert to 3.3.2 but I am not sure how to do that.

 

In 3.1.0 to 3.3.x, you have to edit ./includes/functions_vbseo_startup.php. In 3.5.0+, you have to edit ./vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_startup.php. Find (quite at the bottom):

PHP:

define('VBSEO_UNREG', true);
if (defined('VBSEO_LITE_DEFAULT')){
define('VBSEO_LITE', true);
if (VBSEO_EXPIRED_MORE)
define('VBSEO_UNREG_EXPIRED', 1);

Replace with:

PHP:

//define('VBSEO_UNREG', true);
if (defined('VBSEO_LITE_DEFAULT')){}
//define('VBSEO_LITE', true);
if (VBSEO_EXPIRED_MORE){}
//define('VBSEO_UNREG_EXPIRED', 1);

This should do the trick.

Via:
http://www.wewota.de/threads/vbseo-lizenzserver-nicht-erreichbar-vbseo-wiederbeleben.625/

 

@mdawg. Unfortunately a check from here shows the following message. "
http://www.vbseo.com is DOWN" I have no idea if it is permanent.

 

The domain no longer resolves in DNS.

 

Did they give any warning of this happening? Could be a tempt thing, but doesn't look good.

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH. This just totally saved my backside. Links are now working.

However, I am still unable to access my backend admin - doesn't accept my password. Assume there is a check somewhere for that that is separate from everything else.

 

The only check that I know about is if you update your license key inside the vbseo control panel.

 

vbseo lite? Never saw that before until now.

 

I hope this isn't the "official" announcement that was coming. Maybe temporary.

 

Relax people. Sites go down, just as vB.org and vB.com did a short while ago.

It's temporary. Probably a server issue because initially it was giving database errors. It will be back.

 

soon™

 

Man I'm glad we didn't spend any more money on this product, thanks ILIA

 

This is when we normally blow up Oleg's inbox.

Andres - if you're following the thread, please let everyone know the status of the server.

 

Its a DNS problem, vbseo.com no longer has any responding nameservers - it uses name servers on the crawlability.com domain, crawlability.com has also stopped resolving, and it used its own nameservers.

 

Oleg doesn't even work there any more and Andres doesn't work for you. Stop pretending you're his employer. It is being looked into.

 

Yes but that doesn't mean it isn't a server issue. That can happen if the DNS server (BIND or whatever) crashes, as I'm sure you know.

Initially the error message was about a database crash (for almost 24 hours). The DNS error appeared this morning. To me, that suggests a server issue starting with the database crash which spread so that other services ran out of resources and also crashed.