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Andy · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:05 pm

I've been informed the remaining blocks are now removed. The FTP should work for everyone now.

jamieostrich · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:11 pm

Andy wrote:

I've been informed the remaining blocks are now removed. The FTP should work for everyone now.

"Should" being the word. Oh well I'm not bothered at the moment lol.

happy dude · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:18 pm

Wow, love all the insults and speculation about who done what... the site is still here yes?

Those on page 4: BA is hosted in France..

dualloop · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:52 pm

I still cannot access FTP. Is anyone else still experiencing this?

Andy · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:55 pm

If you can't access the FTP, please ping the address. If it does not ping, run a tracert on it and PM it to me. DO NOT POST IT HERE.

This will help me find where the issue is and so I can report it to the data center. Thank you.

Ahmed Jebara · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:20 am

I'm now able to access both Download and Upload Server. From U.A.E

Andy · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:51 pm

The blocks have supposedly been lifted. Can everyone who couldn't access it before please try again, and let me know if you still can't access it.

Thanks.

Windows XP · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:58 pm

FTP working here, in Wolverhampton. Not sure if location affects anything though.

ultrawindows · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:06 pm

Andy wrote:

The blocks have supposedly been lifted. Can everyone who couldn't access it before please try again, and let me know if you still can't access it.

Thanks.

Works

jamieostrich · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:09 pm

ultrawindows wrote:

Andy wrote:

The blocks have supposedly been lifted. Can everyone who couldn't access it before please try again, and let me know if you still can't access it.

Thanks.

Works

Indeed it does!

AttackedbyGlitch · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:30 pm

ultrawindows wrote:

Andy wrote:

The blocks have supposedly been lifted. Can everyone who couldn't access it before please try again, and let me know if you still can't access it.

Thanks.

Works

It works here in Canada.

compgeke · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:35 pm

Works here in the US also.

Cats869 · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:59 am

I have no problems connecting to FTP and I'm located on the east coast of the USA.

Windows2000guy · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:02 pm

I was wondering why I couldnt access betaArchive Last week

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In fact I lost my entire Internet connection for some reason and contacted my internet provider and they tested my connection and said nothing was wrong. Stupid Windows Vista cant even connect to the internet properly.

blasted DDoSers.

Patrick · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:11 pm

FTP is working here from West Coast USA

kelsyr · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:34 am

Its kinda odd that a DDOS would cause database corruption isn't it? Maybe somethin else is happening as well?

Andy · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:51 am

The forced reboot caused the corruption as database tables hadn't been fully written to disk. It's always a risk if you don't/can't cleanly shut down on any system.

Chaos-Mind · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:21 pm

i hate skids, but nice work form OVH to stop it

Prince781 · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:36 pm

Andy wrote:

Someone seems to think it was funny to DDoS the site, so we went down for a while and it corrupted the DB. No fret, we're back.

There is 80Mbps of incoming DDoS bandwidth at the moment, but OVH is holding it off.

Andy (Admin)

Here goes...

Stupid question: What does DDoS mean? Apparently this is the one technological topic that escaped my knowledge.

Sounds unfortunate, though.

Rob Jansen · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:23 pm

Here you go:

Information about DDoS:

http://tinyurl.com/aw5jus

Sipiyu · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:30 am

Just pathetic to see people do things like this and the really sad part is half the time they dont even know what they are doing...
The just hopped onto google and starting searching "how to DDoS"

Stannieman · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2011 1:14 pm

If it happens again (which probably is going to happen at some time), can't we dos the attacker(s) to reduse pressure on the server?

Andy · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2011 1:16 pm

No, because:

1. That would be illegal
2. They have far more resources than we do
3. The computers doing it are likely zombie machines so you're not attacking the attacker only some innocent person whose computer is being used as a part of the attack
4. We don't know who the attackers are to begin with nor can we find out when it's a DDoS

Stannieman · **Post subject:** Re: DDoS Attack **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2011 1:19 pm

Andy wrote:

No, because:

1. That would be illegal
2. They have far more resources than we do
3. The computers doing it are likely zombie machines so you're not attacking the attacker only some innocent person whose computer is being used as a part of the attack
4. We don't know who the attackers are to begin with nor can we find out when it's a DDoS

Ok thanks for the answer

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