10-13-2014, 12:28 PM
I dunno why, but someone DDOS'd us last night and IX took us offline and sent us a sternly worded TOS email informing us that they took the site down until we could get our ship in order.
I poked around, unfairly blamed & executed my mashup thread with all those videos in it, thinking that youtube plugin was causing the issue. Then I find out that we got gangbanged with by approximately 33,482 POST requests at about 2:15 this morning from some IP in Spain. :dunno:
I blocked the IP responsible for all of those hits and now I'm skimming the log to make sure the other hits around that time are at least from US IPs.
At any rate, that's why we went down. We're back now.
I poked around, unfairly blamed & executed my mashup thread with all those videos in it, thinking that youtube plugin was causing the issue. Then I find out that we got gangbanged with by approximately 33,482 POST requests at about 2:15 this morning from some IP in Spain. :dunno:
I blocked the IP responsible for all of those hits and now I'm skimming the log to make sure the other hits around that time are at least from US IPs.
At any rate, that's why we went down. We're back now.
Now: 07 Porsche Cayman S | 18 VW Tiguan
Then: 18 VW GTI Autobahn | 95 BMW M3 | 15 VW GTI SE | 12 Kia Optima SX | 2009 VW GTI | 00 BMW 540i Sport | 90 Mazda Miata | 94 Yamaha FZR600R | 1993 Suzuki GS500E | 2003 BMW 325i | 95 Saab 900S