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Snowcone:
Sorry for the site issues this week everyone. About noon east coast time we got hit with a spike of about 600,000 requests that triggered a DDOS mechanism with our host and CDN and they took it all down. It took me until later that night to get service back online. I have no clue if it was malicious or someone trying to script a download of all the covers that went sideways. Either way, not good.
marioxb:
It's all good now! Great to see you back, man! Now, about those uploads...
Tech13:
wow. that is crazy if someone attempted to datamine the site.
Bear78:
--- Quote from: Snowcone on July 26, 2018, 06:40:04 PM ---Sorry for the site issues this week everyone. About noon east coast time we got hit with a spike of about 600,000 requests that triggered a DDOS mechanism with our host and CDN and they took it all down. It took me until later that night to get service back online. I have no clue if it was malicious or someone trying to script a download of all the covers that went sideways. Either way, not good.
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Thanks for getting it back online man.
Patman:
If it was someone trying to get all the covers, it may not be a horrible idea to get a torrent up of the site's content if that's not too much of a pain in the ass.