What's been going on with the forum then?

[JCplumb]

My guess is it's a DDOS ransom attack, it won't be long before some keyboard warrior is asking for some money to stop/help with these attacks.
Make sure you offer to pay him in cash and we'll all turn up to pay the geeky little ****er what he's asked for - only not in sterling...

 

[galaxy_plumbing]

i cant make new thread, keep getting msg that i was blocked.

 

[Dan]

Looking into the blocked thing now. We just need to relax the settings a little but am checking on how far we dare to go.

It's obviously a national holiday in the USA today (independence day) so support replies are very slow. I might need to pick this back up again on monday.

 

[kris]

Well done dan for getting us back up and running. You deserve a medal. Il get you a drink in the arms later if you have time...

 

[northstar]

it seems to be hard battle this Dan, has the war been won against these pests ?

 

[zeebeedee]

Probably a fat 50 yr old that's never left his mum's basement in the last 10 yrs.

 

[Dan]

Yup, we've won.

We've been getting attacks off and on and you wouldn't even notice it website-wise now.

I need to reconfigure a few things like image uploading for newbies, email notifications via Amazon SES, and some other things (take them off-site to spread the load), and that's it we're back to normal then.

You might find the odd half hour or 15 minutes downtime if we get a massive attack while we configure the brand new server. My guy has spent 12 hours configuring firewalls and ports and things I didn't know existed until yesterday. But we need to see some attacks to route them and whatnot. So far they've not been strong enough to do anything and we've routed them fine. But if they pull some massive random thing off, it'll just be 10 minutes or so while we sod it off and we'll be back online.

Seems we're okay now though.

 

[SimonG]

So is it a targeted thing at your sites or just somebody just trying to invade the world?

 

[Dan]

No it's targeted right at me mate. Not sure why. Or who.

The problem and the solution is the same whether it's the Chinese government, Anonymous hacking group, or some spotty little pr1ck in his bedroom. So I've given up guessing now and just sorted it out.

I was seriously expecting a ransom demand. But they took my emails out so maybe they couldn't contact me haha (joke, my phone numbers are everywhere).

 

[SimonG]

Thats a bit sh!tty then. Some real saddos out there in the world, shame they dont have something better to do.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits.