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Toxic Ted
Should have played some games when you were there...........
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mountainman
How about the tilers technical thread.
Very lonely in there!
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Whyme
i was on it milling around for an hour. felt a bit too far from home and too civilized..
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Ermintrude
My guess is it's a DDOS ransom attack, it won't be long before some keyboard warrior is asking for some money to stop/help with these attacks.
Make sure you offer to pay him in cash and we'll all turn up to pay the geeky little ****er what he's asked for - only not in sterling...
Make sure you offer to pay him in cash and we'll all turn up to pay the geeky little ****er what he's asked for - only not in sterling...
i cant make new thread, keep getting msg that i was blocked.
Looking into the blocked thing now. We just need to relax the settings a little but am checking on how far we dare to go.
It's obviously a national holiday in the USA today (independence day) so support replies are very slow. I might need to pick this back up again on monday.
It's obviously a national holiday in the USA today (independence day) so support replies are very slow. I might need to pick this back up again on monday.
Yup, we've won.
We've been getting attacks off and on and you wouldn't even notice it website-wise now.
I need to reconfigure a few things like image uploading for newbies, email notifications via Amazon SES, and some other things (take them off-site to spread the load), and that's it we're back to normal then.
You might find the odd half hour or 15 minutes downtime if we get a massive attack while we configure the brand new server. My guy has spent 12 hours configuring firewalls and ports and things I didn't know existed until yesterday. But we need to see some attacks to route them and whatnot. So far they've not been strong enough to do anything and we've routed them fine. But if they pull some massive random thing off, it'll just be 10 minutes or so while we sod it off and we'll be back online.
Seems we're okay now though. 🙂
We've been getting attacks off and on and you wouldn't even notice it website-wise now.
I need to reconfigure a few things like image uploading for newbies, email notifications via Amazon SES, and some other things (take them off-site to spread the load), and that's it we're back to normal then.
You might find the odd half hour or 15 minutes downtime if we get a massive attack while we configure the brand new server. My guy has spent 12 hours configuring firewalls and ports and things I didn't know existed until yesterday. But we need to see some attacks to route them and whatnot. So far they've not been strong enough to do anything and we've routed them fine. But if they pull some massive random thing off, it'll just be 10 minutes or so while we sod it off and we'll be back online.
Seems we're okay now though. 🙂
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No it's targeted right at me mate. Not sure why. Or who.
The problem and the solution is the same whether it's the Chinese government, Anonymous hacking group, or some spotty little pr1ck in his bedroom. So I've given up guessing now and just sorted it out.
I was seriously expecting a ransom demand. But they took my emails out so maybe they couldn't contact me haha (joke, my phone numbers are everywhere).
The problem and the solution is the same whether it's the Chinese government, Anonymous hacking group, or some spotty little pr1ck in his bedroom. So I've given up guessing now and just sorted it out.
I was seriously expecting a ransom demand. But they took my emails out so maybe they couldn't contact me haha (joke, my phone numbers are everywhere).
So basically you were on Holliday again on the beach and after partying for so long you lost all your belongings and could not return quicker to uk to press the reset bottom on your fan that's cooling down your computer system !!!!!??? Not good Dan 🙂 lol
Freeeeeeedoooooooommmmmm
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