Closed Forum outage today

Discussion in 'PropertyChat Community & Website' started by Simon Hampel, 16th Dec, 2016.

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  1. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    Apologies for the extended outage.

    I've been dealing with multiple Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on my main web server today, which has resulted in the server being isolated from the internet by our hosting provider until we can put some DoS mitigation systems in place.

    For now, I've migrated PropertyChat to a new server and will move most of my other sites to another separate server - so in future attacks on one site won't take all my sites offline at once.

    That will also give me some time to test some DoS mitigation services to determine if they will work with my webserver setup (which is rather complicated).

    Please let me know if you find anything which isn't working as expected - I may have forgotten to configure something.
     
    Simon Hampel, 16th Dec, 2016
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  2. andrew_t

    andrew_t Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for your effort on getting the forums back online, much appreciated
     
    andrew_t, 16th Dec, 2016
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  3. Simon Hampel

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    ... and now I've got to go get some sleep (only got 4 hours last night) before I start to tackle the other 7 websites which are still offline :(
     
    Simon Hampel, 16th Dec, 2016
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  4. EN710

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    Thank you Sim, hope all worked out asap.
     
    EN710, 16th Dec, 2016
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  5. Wukong

    Wukong Well-Known Member

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    Posted in the SS thread. Is it down from the attack too?

    Rest up :)
     
    Wukong, 17th Dec, 2016
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  6. Simon Hampel

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    Replied in the SS thread. Yes - Somersoft was on the same server. Being moved to a new server now - should be back online later today.
     
    Simon Hampel, 17th Dec, 2016
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  7. Chrispy

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    Thankyou Sim for all your work
     
    Chrispy, 17th Dec, 2016
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  8. Simon Hampel

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    Somersoft is back online now.
     
    Simon Hampel, 17th Dec, 2016
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