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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby Hammer of Los » Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:37 am

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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby Hammer of Los » Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:20 am

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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby justdrew » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:03 pm

slowdown/stop was due to an ip from Neatherlands, 213.144.233.245

it's been banned.
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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby brainpanhandler » Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:02 pm

and can we unsticky this already as well?
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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby justdrew » Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:25 am

sry bout that interruption. technical difficulties and all. should be stable now for awhile. :thumbsup
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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby JackRiddler » Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:01 am

It's been going on for days. I wondered if it was an attack and asked for divine intervention. Here is what God told me via Facebook:

RI was timing out because our memory had outgrown our server. So I'm resizing the server. Could take hours, but hopefully that will take care of it.


Apparently it's worked.
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The highest Wisdom and the first Love.

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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby 82_28 » Thu Jun 05, 2014 2:59 am

Was it some form of an attack? Like DDOS or something? It's gone on the last couple of days.

That, said. Good work, Drew.

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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby justdrew » Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:06 am

there are constant swarms of bots trying to create accounts. our new Q-n-A based CAPTCHA has cut down on the number of 'fake' accounts asking for membership, but they still hit the registration page constantly. many spiders from questionable search engines such as baidu and yandex scrape way to much content, etc. I've tightened the limits on mod_evasive to reduce the load from such things, so now if you sit on a page and just hit F5 as fast as you can, there's a good chance you'll be temporarily blocked for a few minutes. Memory use is up because of the huge blacklist of ips of known malware blocked. Gotta look for a better way to do that. The ssh is constantly being tested by lackluster attackers. it doesn't look like anyone 'got in' root can't ssh and they don't know any other usernames to try. sshd/openssl is now fully up to date too btw.

Probably we'll start a new server instance and migrate the site to it in the not too distant future, just to keep everything fresh, but it's not urgent.

Things should be stable for awhile at least.
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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby Luther Blissett » Sat Jun 07, 2014 2:38 pm

Thanks Drew!
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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby Hammer of Los » Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:26 pm

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Er sorry.

Jus' ignore me.

Yeah.

Hehehe.

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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby justdrew » Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:07 pm

rackspace infrastructure updates complete, and we're kickin' it again.

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and check it out, it sounds like if Danzig were in a celtic folk band...

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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:26 pm

Thanks Drew. I wuz wonderin... could we possibly get a heads up beforehand, next time? I was unable to log in to FB, so I couldn't check there. I mean forewarning here, if that's possible for planned updates.
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Re: OK - we're back !

Postby justdrew » Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:56 pm

Iamwhomiam » 07 Mar 2015 12:26 wrote:Thanks Drew. I wuz wonderin... could we possibly get a heads up beforehand, next time? I was unable to log in to FB, so I couldn't check there. I mean forewarning here, if that's possible for planned updates.


yes, normally there would be, sorry bout that.
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