Slow Loading / Timeouts

w0dk4

If you are wondering why the site is very slow at the moment or why you get a lot of time-outs, it is because we are under quite a DDOS attack (though its manageable).

w0dk4

Seems like its over… and it seems like the attack broke our who’s online list… oh well, simply too many IPs I guess…

w0dk4

w0dk4 wrote:
Seems like its over… and it seems like the attack broke our who’s online list… oh well, simply too many IPs I guess…

<- repaired (sql table crashed… wow never seen that)

StarTrader

Was it a deliberate attack or just heavy useage, or just due to the broken table?

w0dk4

Deliberate attack (to “prove a point”).

lonestar

Its microsoft, trying to shut down all the freelancer sites so that they can KILL the game for good!!

No really i don’t know who it is. Great job with the defence, I got a few timeouts and slow loading still, so it might still be on.

FriendlyFire

We know who it is, we also can guess why he did it. That he’s back after this long, however… That, I do not understand why.

lonestar

Ah ok, i think i know WHO it is.

Gisteron

an old friend who separated due to disagreements of opinions?

StarTrader

FriendlyFire wrote:
We know who it is, we also can guess why he did it. That he’s back after this long, however… That, I do not understand why.

Just got out of prison?

Any way to send him right back?

Gisteron

so, who is it and what are his motives?

w0dk4

It doesnt matter, can we let this thing just rest?

I simply wanted to tell you why the site was slow/ timing out.

Gisteron

well, okay.
its just me cuz i rarely understand human behavior due to a damaged mind constellation and any such information helps me to learn to understand people. maybe youre right and it is safer for us to keep it as quiet as before.

w0dk4

Just FYI: Today we experienced another DDOS attack.
So that may be why you experienced slow load times or complete timeouts.

w0dk4

We are again currently under attack. Since this has become a game of cat-and-mouse expect more outages to happen.

Xarian_Prime

Right then… we need the following…

Some sturdy rope, 1 gallon of hot sticky tar… and some big bags of them there feathers… yee haw… anyways…

That sucks, in so many different ways… If you know who (& yeah yeah… we all know “who” ) then try to find his ISP & casually let them know there routers are attacking your site via his hand. depending on where he is… this may cause him some major problems in RL… you know… the legal kind…

Some ppl need to be reminded that the internet Isn’t there plaything :-x

w0dk4

bump

As usual…

AzzA

how annoying

w0dk4

You need to buy a larger botnet. Or get a life

AzzA

lol I am not the one that needs to do anything