get_iplayer Forums blog

Square Penguin was knocked offline yesterday for a period of 18 hours or so. That is a crazy amount of time for any site to go down, even a small one like this.

Running Wordpress always attracts a continual stream of attempted brute force login attempts along with the occasional SQL injection attack or even something a little more troublesome. As a result, I've got some measures in place to prevent intrusions and these have been working as expected.

Several months ago I wrote a very successful 'Complete Beginners Guide to get_iplayer' on my part time personal blog.

Having received an average of over 7,500 unique visitors per month, tens of thousands of page views and hundreds of comments I decided that get_iplayer could do with a permanent place to host guides, forums and notices.

With the blessing of get_iplayer maintainer Dinky Pumpkin, I threw this site together whilst enjoying a weekend of Wimbledon, Glastonbury and the British Grand Prix.

The intent here is not to supersede the efforts of others or claim any glory off the back of Phil Lewis et al who have created and maintained this project over the years. Instead it is my intent to give get_iplayer and its community a modern, easy to use, centralised and interactive venue in which to store guides/documentation, provide troubleshooting and give notice of updates or known errors.