I'm still looking into what happened but P2L was down since early this morning and finally came back online. Sorry for the inconvenience gang!
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Sorry for the downtime folks!
Started by Faken, Aug 24 2004 02:35 PM
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#1
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 02:35 PM
#6 _*Dabu_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 03:49 PM
ya my server went down as well 
bummer but im glad its back up!
bummer but im glad its back up!
#7 _*Jaymz_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 04:23 PM
5 out of the 7 sites I browse frequently (few times a day) were down today.... its weird because they're all on different servers...
#8 _*Anarchy_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 04:43 PM
wow, it went down again a few minutes back!
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Date: Tuesday 24th of August 2004 05:40:13 PM
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Date: Tuesday 24th of August 2004 05:40:13 PM
#9 _*TySoft_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 04:47 PM
The server this site is hosted on was slammed with a *massive* DDoS attack this morning. Anywhere from 1500-3000 unqiue hosts were hitting http (not sure how many false positives were there).
Have pushed over 2 terrabytes of data today. It's simply impossible to mitigate a DDoS attack of this magnitude without *extremely* expensive and specialized hardware. The machine is still pushing around 35mbps (pushed 95mbps earlier) but things are slowly returning to normal. We have two layers of DDoS protection that are always operational, which are easily capable of mitigating a small DOS or DDoS without any service interruption at all. This, however, was a huge attack.
I have never seen an attack of this magnitude - it's a once in a blue moon event.
You may notice a couple more database or http burps for a couple more hours, but things are looking very good.
I apologize for the inconvenience guys! You have no idea how frustrating it is to sit here for hours, at the mercy of the attack, not to mention losing money every minute that ticks by. Such is the nature of the internet.
Have pushed over 2 terrabytes of data today. It's simply impossible to mitigate a DDoS attack of this magnitude without *extremely* expensive and specialized hardware. The machine is still pushing around 35mbps (pushed 95mbps earlier) but things are slowly returning to normal. We have two layers of DDoS protection that are always operational, which are easily capable of mitigating a small DOS or DDoS without any service interruption at all. This, however, was a huge attack.
I have never seen an attack of this magnitude - it's a once in a blue moon event.
You may notice a couple more database or http burps for a couple more hours, but things are looking very good.
I apologize for the inconvenience guys! You have no idea how frustrating it is to sit here for hours, at the mercy of the attack, not to mention losing money every minute that ticks by. Such is the nature of the internet.
#11 _*TySoft_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 04:53 PM
Distributed denial of service attack.
Basically the server is flooded with so many connection attempts (thousands per second) that legitimate requests are dropped. A *distributed* attack is one that originates from many, many hundreds (or thousands) of computers - there is virtually no way to mitigate an attack of that scale without an astronomical investment in specialized hardware (geared to mission critical servers).
Basically the server is flooded with so many connection attempts (thousands per second) that legitimate requests are dropped. A *distributed* attack is one that originates from many, many hundreds (or thousands) of computers - there is virtually no way to mitigate an attack of that scale without an astronomical investment in specialized hardware (geared to mission critical servers).
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 05:22 PM
<3 Much love to Tysoft and Serverseed for our awesome hosting. There's always going to be assholes out there to mess with our fun :/
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#14 _*Jaymz_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 05:31 PM
Glad that's cleared up... hope these people get caught and face the music for their crimes...
#15 _*TySoft_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 05:32 PM
Wish that could happen. It's something every server admin inevitably has to deal with at some point. :/
#16 _*Jaymz_*
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 05:35 PM
Sooner or later they'll screw up and get caught. 
#17 _*Jag_*
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Posted 25 August 2004 - 07:09 AM
I blame Faken. Cos he told me he taken it down. And I was "Really!!", and then he said "no". And I felt stupid
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Posted 25 August 2004 - 08:04 AM
Jag, on Aug 25 2004, 08:09 AM, said:
I blame Faken. Cos he told me he taken it down. And I was "Really!!", and then he said "no". And I felt stupid
That was hilarious... Jag MSN's me (The 100th person to do so) asking what happened to the site. I tell him him I got sick of it and took it down. Dead silence for a minute then I get a shocked "Really?!" back. Good times Faken
#19 _*Salty_*
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Posted 25 August 2004 - 08:24 AM
Faken, on Aug 25 2004, 01:04 PM, said:
Jag, on Aug 25 2004, 08:09 AM, said:
I blame Faken. Cos he told me he taken it down. And I was "Really!!", and then he said "no". And I felt stupid
That was hilarious... Jag MSN's me (The 100th person to do so) asking what happened to the site. I tell him him I got sick of it and took it down. Dead silence for a minute then I get a shocked "Really?!" back. Good times Faken
#20 _*Jag_*
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Posted 25 August 2004 - 11:13 AM
Faken, on Aug 25 2004, 08:04 AM, said:
Jag, on Aug 25 2004, 08:09 AM, said:
I blame Faken. Cos he told me he taken it down. And I was "Really!!", and then he said "no". And I felt stupid
That was hilarious... Jag MSN's me (The 100th person to do so) asking what happened to the site. I tell him him I got sick of it and took it down. Dead silence for a minute then I get a shocked "Really?!" back. Good times Faken
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