Server Slowness

Mike · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:29 pm

Server has been dead slow for the past hour and we are now back to normal speeds. We were suffering from a DDoS attack. They are still sending tons of requests but it is now under control.

It sickens me that people do this kind of crap, what is the fun of taking down a fansite for a game?

Adbot · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:29 pm

hummerwar921 · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:39 pm

What is DDoS?

Ult_Mac_Dady · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:41 pm

Would refreshing a page, about 30k times, do the same thing?

Shane · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:44 pm

Ult_Mac_Dady wrote:

Would refreshing a page, about 30k times, do the same thing?

That's in essence what it is but it's automated. DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service attack. Instead of one person sending many requests a huge net of different clients sends the requests. That's basically what's been happening.

Ult_Mac_Dady · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:46 pm

Shane wrote:

Ult_Mac_Dady wrote:

Would refreshing a page, about 30k times, do the same thing?

That's in essence what it is but it's automated. DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service attack. Instead of one person sending many requests a huge net of different clients sends the requests. That's basically what's been happening.

So one person could not do it then with one computer?

Mike · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:46 pm

DDoS: Distributed Denial of Service

They use multiple machines/IP's to bombard our server with a large ammount of requests to bring the server down to a standstill to make it inaccessible to users.

And no... if just you were refreshing the page 30k times it would not do a thing to our server, it would require thousands of people doing that on heavy load pages to do the same thing

Edit: Shane beat me to it

Adbot · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 8:46 pm

The_Dude · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 9:28 pm

Mike wrote:

DDoS: Distributed Denial of Service

They use multiple machines/IP's to bombard our server with a large ammount of requests to bring the server down to a standstill to make it inaccessible to users.

And no... if just you were refreshing the page 30k times it would not do a thing to our server, it would require thousands of people doing that on heavy load pages to do the same thing

Edit: Shane beat me to it

Hmm. Sounds bad, but it seems that you guys got it under control, and that's good to hear. Ask if you need anything

The_Dude

The Haysta · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 9:31 pm

No offense dude, but do you think they really need your help?

I thought it was Operaness XD.

Mike · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 9:47 pm

No need to be rude Waffles, he was just offering to help...

The Haysta · **Posted:** February 22nd, 2007, 10:24 pm

I was being realistic.

In other news; just got obsidian cape from a drop.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** February 23rd, 2007, 3:33 am

^ That's not an excuse to be a jerk, nothing wrong with offering to help.

Anywho this looks like the work of a no lifer with no friends, life or girlfriend. He's probably giggling to himself now at what a leet haxz0r he is hell he might even be reading this post and getting a laugh out of what chaos hes caused (l0l not.)

Well Mr no lifer you have a very small ***** and will never get out your mothers basement.

Andy · **Posted:** February 23rd, 2007, 5:39 am

Glad to see that it's over
I feel sorry for Mike & Shane who have to put with this crap to keep this place up :\ Like what do we hold of value what someone wants to take us down from the net <- hope my messaging helped you & thanks for you help

PS; Mike are you going to go after their ISP's and tell them?

Ranging God · **Posted:** February 23rd, 2007, 8:58 am

CreepyPirate wrote:

^ That's not an excuse to be a jerk, nothing wrong with offering to help.

Anywho this looks like the work of a no lifer with no friends, life or girlfriend. He's probably giggling to himself now at what a leet haxz0r he is hell he might even be reading this post and getting a laugh out of what chaos hes caused (l0l not.)

Well Mr no lifer you have a very small ***** and will never get out your mothers basement.

This prolly get's this guy off.
I dont get why ppl do this. It is simply stupid.

Warren · **Posted:** February 23rd, 2007, 2:35 pm

Oh thats why. I thought it was my computer, lol.

Chief Snake · **Posted:** February 23rd, 2007, 2:59 pm

Our old server was DDoSed once before which crashed it pretty much instantly. Yay for your server being better than ours.