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The site was attacked.

AJ

AJ

110 HP of FURY!
The site was pretty muched attacked. Don't know why or who yet, but there was a crazy amount of traffic bombing one specific thread on the site (the autometer gauges for sale thread) and it almost killed the main server this site is on. The amout of requests was a crazy number and thankfully we have a great host (scheides on here) that has cleaned it up, worked some magic, 'blocked' the IP, and overall got us back up and running uber fast.

Basically the server load is normally around .2 to .5 and earlier today was near 1.0 to 1.9 where 1.0 = 1 full server load. The highest he had ever seen was 99, this got up to 230, which is just insane.

Hopefully this is the end of it, if not, at least you know what's going on.

Allan
 
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scheides

Guest
PM me if you know anything about what went down tonight. Cash reward if you can name who did it.
 
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JustROLLIN

Guest
Wow, thanks for the quick response and solid work Scheides!
 
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micahlarson

Guest
lol I second!!!! lol ahahah

yeah I did notice the site wasn't loading... made me sad
 
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scheides

Guest
Anyone here work for Circuit City? That's where it was coming from.
 
AJ

AJ

110 HP of FURY!
scheides said:
Anyone here work for Circuit City? That's where it was coming from.
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LOL, actually yeah. Ashley work there. Whic makes sense since it was her thread, but I know she do that so I wonder what happened.
 
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JustROLLIN

Guest
Have any ideas as to what happened yet? Is it possible it was just a computer malfunction or was it definitely a malicious type of thing?
 
AJ

AJ

110 HP of FURY!
I should be able to give Ashley a wedgie or something since I also have to sift through and delete just over 5000 e-mails for database errors because of this. That was a rude awakeing. LOL :D
 
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Slim

Guest
Maybe it was a barage of text messages...just kidding Ashlee.
 
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speed_addict

Guest
Formal apology everyone .... I point fingers at Circuit City cause their computers are gay. I guess no more mnmazda for me at work.
 
dmention7

dmention7

Hater
Hmm, that's a new way to prevent surfing at work... DoS attacks on any websites an employee dwells on for more than a few minutes! hehe...
 
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Matt D.

Guest
My guess is someone was surfing for porn on the same computer at one point in time.
 
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