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Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 01:26
by Manersi
Any information would be nice, I'm bored as fuck at home. ;P

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 01:27
by Mynce

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 01:31
by Manersi
Good shit, haha.

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 01:38
by Mynce

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 01:39
by Henhouse
I haven't really received any updates from the host other than that they're working on the problem. DDoS attacks can take hours to mitigate. If you don't know what a DDoS attack is, I strongly recommend you enlighten yourself.

It's essentially hundreds, if not thousands of computers attempting to communicate with a server and it gets overloaded. Think of hundreds or thousands of people trying to ask you a question or talk to you at once---you get overloaded. That's exactly what a DDoS attack is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 02:37
by Henhouse
DDoS attack has been mitigated.

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 02:39
by Lebban
Why on earth would someone DDoS Smolderforge? Or is it directed at the host and not specifically on SF?

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 02:41
by Henhouse
Lebban wrote:Why on earth would someone DDoS Smolderforge? Or is it directed at the host and not specifically on SF?
They seemed to imply it wasn't directed at us at all, but possibly a client in the same network as us and maybe we were affected somehow. Either way, I swear if that continues to happen...

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 02:42
by Lebban
You could move the server to North America...

Re: Any news on when the server will be back up?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012, 02:46
by Mynce
lebban ! come online bro most people of pizza i munnen moved to a new guild :P