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  1. #1
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    Outage - November 18th

    Greetings,

    I want to just make a quick post and let everyone know why WebHostingTalk has been down for the past couple of hours. At 7am EST I started getting alerts that we were being attacked with a denial of service attack.

    I have been working closely with RackSpace and the attacking ISPs to resolve the situation. At this time we are filtering the attack but there is some residual congestion on the web servers.

    Thank you for your patience!

    -Mat

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    odd.

    namepros.com is having the same problem right now

    sucks when i cant get to my two favorite sites, at the same time!
    if you haven't considered chapter 7 bankruptcy, maybe you should.
    eliminate your debt, keep the property you want, most people qualify.
    contrary to popular belief - no attorney is necessary!

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    I've noticed that quite a few sites seem to be down/slow this morning. I wonder if it's an attack on a certain providers network?
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    Thanks for the heads up. That would explain nicely why I could not see WHT earlier.

    Keep up the good work !!
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    Hi!
    Even odder...

    I noticed a major increase this morning of nasties deflected by the firewall..I've never seen this much so fast. This is just by home dialup connection..too..odd.
    Port scans..predictable port connection attempts..as I said..odd. ????

    Bryon

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    I am receiving database errors while using the "Search" feature now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by linuxcares
    I am receiving database errors while using the "Search" feature now.

    I'm working on that as we speak. I wrote up a quick and dirty shell script that grabs the most active connections and drops them. It should be fixed, it was catching our private net addresses in the detection. (Thats what you get when you program at 7am on a Saturday )

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    Quote Originally Posted by linuxcares
    I am receiving database errors while using the "Search" feature now.
    I'm just glad it's loading for me now Hopefully things will be under control soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lauren Stephens
    odd.

    namepros.com is having the same problem right now

    sucks when i cant get to my two favorite sites, at the same time!
    Same problem here, not been able to access namepros all day.

    WHT is also very slow (which is understandable if theyre still being attacked)

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    Feel bored when I can't visit WHT...
    tanfwc

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    That's weird...I haven't had any issues and I've been actively browsing around.

    *shrug* maybe i'm just lucky

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    And there was me thinking someone had forgotten to pay the hosting bill :p

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    Quote Originally Posted by tanfwc
    Feel bored when I can't visit WHT...
    Do what i do to Play NFS Carbon or United Offensive, thats what i do when i get some time.
    12+ years -same website , new server [SSD Inside] providing shared/reseller hosting only !
    These things we do not provide/offer : Unlimited Storage ! Unlimited Bandwidth ! But Why? Cause, we were unable to put such a large number on our pages, it just would not fit.
    So check out the numbers that actually fit >> << the page as well as your budget too !

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    WHT is loading fine for me now

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    ok, im really getting mad about this namepros thing!!
    if you haven't considered chapter 7 bankruptcy, maybe you should.
    eliminate your debt, keep the property you want, most people qualify.
    contrary to popular belief - no attorney is necessary!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lauren Stephens
    ok, im really getting mad about this namepros thing!!
    You had any success? i noticed it was (partly) back up earlier but showing something like:

    "server is too busy please try later"

    Anyway, back on topic, WHT seems fine now, nice and fast again.

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    Yep,

    running smoothly

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jortex
    You had any success? i noticed it was (partly) back up earlier but showing something like:

    "server is too busy please try later"

    Anyway, back on topic, WHT seems fine now, nice and fast again.
    nothing at all

    grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

    this happens too frequently over there!
    if you haven't considered chapter 7 bankruptcy, maybe you should.
    eliminate your debt, keep the property you want, most people qualify.
    contrary to popular belief - no attorney is necessary!

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    The Prohacker,

    Not sure if this is a real problem or just being caused by that ddos you spoke of but I'm intermittently getting a popup asking me if i want to download showthread.php (as though one of the web servers might be having a php handler error/issue). Then again it could just be apache freaking due to that ddos (if that is still occurring presently).

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    I'm also still seeing a problem, in that sometimes when I try to load a page, it times out. I've never experienced that before, so I know it's not on my end.
    Daniel B., CEO - Bezoka.com and Ungigs.com
    Hosting Solutions Optimized for: WordPress • Joomla • OpenCart • Moodle
    Data Centers in: Chicago (US), London (UK), Sydney (AU), Sofia (BG), Pori (FI)
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    Quote Originally Posted by GlobalWebDan
    I'm also still seeing a problem, in that sometimes when I try to load a page, it times out. I've never experienced that before, so I know it's not on my end.
    wierd... I tried several times now, but cant see any downloadable showthread.php file.

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    We are still under attack and we are working to mitigation the effects. There will be intermittent timeouts because of this. RackSpace has their backbone team on this and they are working with their providers to help eliminate this attack.

    -Mat

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    great! well at least wht isnt having the same thing as namepros...

    Server died. Sorry!

    NamePros.com is temporarily offline while we move to a new server.

    No data has been lost. We'll be back as soon as possible.

    Contact rj <at> namepros.com if you need anything urgently!

    -RJ-
    if you haven't considered chapter 7 bankruptcy, maybe you should.
    eliminate your debt, keep the property you want, most people qualify.
    contrary to popular belief - no attorney is necessary!

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    Everypage is now an error for me so i g2 reload it every time now lol!

    Thanks for letting us know!~!
    Your reading skill has increased by one point!
    computers are cool now OK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by James-Fagan
    Everypage is now an error for me so i g2 reload it every time now lol!

    Thanks for letting us know!~!
    Hmm, I have been browsing and working on and off for 10 hours and only had two 404s

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