Could we please get someone of authority in here to let us know what the hell is going on with the site? Everyone has been complaining lately but nobody is telling us what is going on. Atleast put something up in the forums letting us know what the changes are that you are doing or updates or whatever so maybe we won't get ticked off as much.

Anyone? Anyone?

Beuller? Beuller?

 

yah... ****in time machine mode again

 

Our server has been under attack for the last couple of days... Every time we think we've got it secure enough an attack comes from another location. And then while we're working to secure it, the data center pulls the plug on the server to prevent further attacks. It's frustrating for all of us, just hang in there and we'll have this sorted out as soon as we can.

 

Thanks for the update.

 

under attack?

like an internet war? who the heck would waste their time ****in with mustangboards.com

 

No, not this site, but the server itself. There's a whole load of other sites hosted on that server.

Somebody uploads a script that gets around the security we have in place, and it prompts our server to start sending out massive amounts of data to another site, effectively bringing both sites down... ours goes down because it can't do anything but send out that data, and the site being attacked goes down because it can't do anything but respond to the data.

We think we've got it, though. Keep your fingers crossed.

 

 

Whoo...sounds like fun. DoS attacks are the best!

 

I've locked up the server tighter than a drum, it looks like the attacks are over.

 

HOORAY!

 

You got that right.

 

Funny how?