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Offline Brass_Machine

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recent outage
« on: October 08, 2014, 10:24:39 PM »
Hey guys,

We just experienced a recent outage. Our hosting was hit by a ddos attack. Seems to be resolved right now.

Eric.
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Offline JD

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Re: recent outage
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2014, 11:31:32 PM »
Eric, thought something odd last night ( Wednesday in UK ) couldn't log on to my favorite site.
Glad all well again, one question what is ddos   :scratch:.
Thanks for all your hard work in keeping this great site running smoothly.
 John   
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Offline Stilldrillin

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Re: recent outage
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2014, 02:30:53 AM »
Hi Eric.

Thanks for saying so. I wondered what was wrong.......  :scratch:

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Offline John Rudd

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Re: recent outage
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2014, 03:31:26 AM »
Quote from: JD on October 08, 2014, 11:31:32 PM
Eric, thought something odd last night ( Wednesday in UK ) couldn't log on to my favorite site.
 John   


Ditto.....
I just wish these morons could find something more constructive to wirh their time.......
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Offline rockknocker

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Re: recent outage
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2014, 03:51:45 PM »
JD,

DDOS = Distributed Denial Of Service

It usually means that a hacker, or group of hackers, got control of 10,000 or 1,000,000 or 100,000,000 computers and commanded all of them to visit a specific website all at once. This overloads the servers that are hosting the website, often causing them to crash. Unfortunately, if the server is hosting more sites than just the website that was attacked, the attack will bring all of those websites down until the attack stops and the server is brought back online.

There are other ways to execute a DDOS attack, but I believe this is the most common.
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Re: recent outage
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2014, 04:14:33 PM »
Rockknocker, thanks for that, basically some little scrote with nothing better to do.
John
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