Are the forums down due to ddos attacks or lack of bandwidth?
Is there something we can do to help keep them up?
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Are the forums down due to ddos attacks or lack of bandwidth?
Is there something we can do to help keep them up?
Clearly isis hates our way of life and our freedom on the PC. Unless 200m is paid, they will continue their assault on the PC.
The forums have been under a constant DDOS attack, in fact it's still being attacked as we speak. It's happened several times before but never this big and for a sustained period of time. Guess this site really pissed someone off.
Anyways, to mitigate the effect of the attack I basically contracted a third party to install some DDOS blocking proxies. It will prevent DDOS attacks of up to 10 Gbps. The current attack right now got as high as 2 Gbps so we should be fine for the time being. If the DDOS attack does increase to beyond 10 Gbps there are plans available to add additional protection and it should only take a couple of hours to update further.
I would have had this issue fixed sooner but the long weekend and all kind of slowed things down.
Thanks very much for taking the time to explain. It's nice just to know what's going on.
It's good to know. I'm glad this place has an administrator that's so good with IT issues. Thanks.
And to top it off there were some config issues that were causing redirects to http://forum.gsplayers.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
That has now been resolved.
Also, I think Buckwheat deserves thanks for providing a place for us to check PC status at http://gsplayersisdown.info/index.php
Thanks, man.