Hey everyone,
The WBO has been down for almost an entire day due to a DDOS attack on our host. Simply put, our host was extorted and bombarded with requests of up to 4GB/s of data, causing the servers to crash. We've been moved to a more secure server now and there should be no data loss. Sorry about the inconvenience!
Whoa... Any way to figure out who's responsible?
I honestly don't know anybody who would have a grudge against a spinning top oriented forum...
It was an attack on the host, not directly at us. But it should be okay now.
Yeah, it seems this has been a common thing. Just recently Daizex.com had their host attacked too.
(Jul. 16, 2009 10:59 PM)To Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, it seems this has been a common thing. Just recently Daizex.com had their host attacked too.
Someone has been going around offering "protection" for loads of money and promising "connectivity problems" if hosts didn't pay up, so I won't be at all surprised if these two incidents are related..
^ Internet mafia?
We any more safer now? Or can the same thing likely to happen again...
(Jul. 16, 2009 11:27 PM)asterisk93 Wrote: [ -> ]^ Internet mafia?
We any more safer now? Or can the same thing likely to happen again...
Our server is protected now so more attacks are unlikely.
thank god the site is safe
and thanks for your work to make it safe again
so this attack is the cause of the site going back to the past?
or making it go to the past is part of fighting the attack?
What are you talking about?
today, when the site was down.. it worked for maybe an hour but everything was old. the posts and threads and pms. am just wondering what caused this to happen.
(Jul. 17, 2009 12:02 AM)pegasis Wrote: [ -> ]today, when the site was down.. it worked for maybe an hour but everything was old. the posts and threads and pms. am just wondering what caused this to happen.
And now it's not. So why are you asking?
Yes, site's back up
(Jul. 17, 2009 12:04 AM)Takamura Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, site's back up
nope its still down
(Jul. 17, 2009 12:48 AM)undeadboll Wrote: [ -> ]nope its still down
sarcasm guys....its obviously back up if your posting here.....
Anyway, glad everything is fine now and that we didn't lose anything.
So that was it, well, no harm done in the end but hope those people that did this get found out.
i thought that the host a.k.a got attacked i thought brad got seriously hurt./
Yesterday was so boring because this place was down. I think this server is being nicer to my PC aswell. hurray.
The new server does seem to be a bit faster
(Jul. 17, 2009 7:13 PM)Bey Brad Wrote: [ -> ]The new server does seem to be a bit faster
Good to hear!
Well thats what i think but sometimes it takes 15 minutes to load one page
That's your connection, takes about 5 seconds for me.
Ooops! That only happens when i go on WBO from school. Sorry but at home its as fast as a ferrari LOL