Recent Downtime
Everyone,
I want to clear up what is happening right now with the site and all of the downtime. It seems that we have been under a nightly DoS attack. We have not received any communications as to why, so it does not seem to be extortion.
If you do not know what a DoS is, it is when a hacker group decides to take a site down, they use thousands or even millions of bot machines (random PCs infected with a virus that lets the hacker issue it commands) to just access the site over and over to overwhelm its servers.
While we do have enough hardware resources to handle our regular day to day traffic, we don't have enough hardware to handle all of these simultaneous requests. We are investigating a possible platform change that will give us the flexibility to dynamically add more resources as they are needed.
This is something we have put off as the billing is tricky and we really don't know what the actual costs are going to look like.
We will keep everyone in the loop as decisions are made on how we will continue to deal with these attacks in the future.
In the meantime, keep an eye on both the twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/insanejournal) and our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/InsaneJo urnal/199532194739) as this is where communications will be posted when the site is unreachable.
Thank you all for your patience.
I want to clear up what is happening right now with the site and all of the downtime. It seems that we have been under a nightly DoS attack. We have not received any communications as to why, so it does not seem to be extortion.
If you do not know what a DoS is, it is when a hacker group decides to take a site down, they use thousands or even millions of bot machines (random PCs infected with a virus that lets the hacker issue it commands) to just access the site over and over to overwhelm its servers.
While we do have enough hardware resources to handle our regular day to day traffic, we don't have enough hardware to handle all of these simultaneous requests. We are investigating a possible platform change that will give us the flexibility to dynamically add more resources as they are needed.
This is something we have put off as the billing is tricky and we really don't know what the actual costs are going to look like.
We will keep everyone in the loop as decisions are made on how we will continue to deal with these attacks in the future.
In the meantime, keep an eye on both the twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/insanejournal)
Thank you all for your patience.
Thank you for everything you're doing Squeaky. I know this hasn't been easy to handle and we appreciate the effort you're putting in. Hopefully soon we can beat these assholes and keep on going with the site we all love.
Thanks for hte update as always. :D
I'm following you on Twitter. <3 Also, if they went from LJ to here they might try and attack other sites. >> I think it's best just to beef up security.
Thank you for all the hard work you're doing on our behalf, though, and for keeping us informed.
Anyway, thank you for all your work! As far as money-things go is there any link to make a donation? ...Or I suppose I could just purchase paid time for a community. This is a wonderful site, and if a couple bucks helps I'd all I'm all for donating!
I really hope everything works out soon, and thank you for everything!
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A very small one with five members and many, many comments arranged in such a pattern as to cause this. It wasn't on purpose, so I'm not going to publicly out them. :)
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