Downtime this afternoon

Post by **Ammo** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:52 pm

Seems we have been the victim of a DOS (Denial of Service) attack this afternoon which caused the site to go offline

Kawa is currently working on the issue, and we apologise for the downtime

Post by **Kawa** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:01 pm

Officially joined the great ranks of Sony and blackberry servers

Post by **Gayno** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:06 pm

Why would anyone want to deny us?!

PUK ambush?!

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:09 pm

Did it hapen the other day as well? (Tuesday I think, around 3-4pm)

grant_day · Post by **grant_day** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:12 pm

I didn't notice, I sleep during days and work nights, so as long as it runs throughout the night I'm goood

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:07 pm

Woah, that would certainly explain it

Post by **Merlin** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:00 am

NafemanNathan wrote:Did it hapen the other day as well? (Tuesday I think, around 3-4pm)

No that was Kawa cleaning up the front page (at JayJay's request

), the forum itself was working.

Post by **Lude-dude** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:52 am

why would someone hack this site?

Post by **Merlin** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:01 pm

Gayno wrote: PUK ambush?!

If I were cynically motivated, I would say this as well.

Post by **Kawa** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:11 pm

The attack was not specifically against this site, but the server it sits upon.
Half a million requests per second!