Slow Forums / Inaccessable (Updated)

[Sam]

Wonder what the target of the attacks was, doubt it was this forum, but someone must have been banned from a forum and they have placed this attack in revenge or something.

Glad to see most forums now back up and running, what server is the forum that was the target on Patrick?

Ta,
Sam

[Te?a253]

12, 13, 14, and 23 are back online.
sucks for 29 and 33 'coz they're still offline.

the rest are busy.
~Tera253~

[darknesshayz]

Tennentweb, that is on server 30 is now working. Thanks guys.

[xtx]

server 78, 104 and 107 are al working now you's must be doing a good job hope everyones forum gets fixed to, and is there a chance that this will keep happening like will the keep attacking?

[bulliemania]

105 is back up and running. well done guys for sorting this so quickly

[CLAIRE]

mine is working now....yay!

[lettuceleaf]

My forum is still inaccessible and has been for a couple of hours now:

cashorty.proboards52.com/index.cgi?

Good luck and thanks to all those working to try and get it sorted.

[Renegade]

your board is back now too

most forums appear to be back available now

[Super Dave!]

Remember fellow admins ... BUSY status is better then OFFLINE : )

[Mirela]

My Phil Glenister board is working again *breathes sigh of relief and goes to check on chat forum*

Thanks to everyone who's been working hard to fix this, it's much appreciated ;D

[ImMeSoHi]

Oct 9, 2008 8:05:51 GMT -8 Zath said:

Oct 9, 2008 7:47:27 GMT -8 ImMeSoHi said:

If your able to at least get into your headers and footers like I am, then I suggest backing your headers/footers up.

This is unnecessary.
A denial of service attack clogs up access with constant attempts at connection or pings etc, its not actually an attempt to destroy data.

But it helps to know that I've at least backed up anything I can incase the forums go down. It makes me think that I've done my part in making my data safe incase the worse happens. Better to be safe than sorry but it's my own personal opinion on backing data up as I know what a pain it can be when you lose a server and whatever was on it.

Looks like we're progressing on the servers.

[xtx]

Oct 9, 2008 8:08:42 GMT -8 timothy said:

Oct 9, 2008 6:59:20 GMT -8 VS Admin said:

We have identified the forum that is the target of this attack. We are continuing to work to minimize the impact of this attack on our services.

Oh that means that a forum specifically si beig attacked? Why? Which? Who? It's awful

wow someone was attacking a forum?
that is quite OTT of them to do, dont you think? attacking 1 forum and look at the damage it is doing for everyone else trying to fix these problems

[Sam]

Quite a few servers now coming back online again - www.proboards.com/server_status.html

Ta,
Sam

[joycesplace]

My forum on 83 is up and running. Thank you

[Renegade]

you should generally keep a backup of your headers anyway just in case you accidentally delete them