Administrator Maldesto Posted August 29, 2015 Administrator Posted August 29, 2015 Dear community, For the last 3-4 days(24 hours a day for those 3-4 days) we have been a target of DDoS attacks. We are working on a solution to stop these, but right now it is a work in progress. Should be solved soon, but you will have some lag on the website in the mean time. If you can't get the bot open, keep trying. It took me 2-3 minutes to finally get it opened and have been running flawlessly every since. If you have any questions or just want to chat with the rest of the community feel free to come in the chat box. We are friendly, I promise! Thanks, @Maldesto 5
Robzy Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 (edited) Thanks for updating on what has been happening, was wondering why was the website down daily and no announcement about it. Note to self- Remember to copy everything typed before submitting a large text. Edited August 29, 2015 by Robzy 3
Acerd Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 mald is gonna be active in chatbox is this real lifeOT: Thank you 1
Mysteryy Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 Dear community, We are friendly, I promise! Thanks, @Maldesto 6
Lynx Titan Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 J...Ja...Jagex? Is that you? oh wait no maldesto is better cause he tells us what's up serious though don't you guys have cloudflare?
Dex Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 J...Ja...Jagex? Is that you? oh wait no maldesto is better cause he tells us what's up serious though don't you guys have cloudflare? Cloudflare doesn't stop all DDoS attacks... It stops the rather small ones but the big ones still go through.
Administrator Maldesto Posted August 29, 2015 Author Administrator Posted August 29, 2015 J...Ja...Jagex? Is that you? oh wait no maldesto is better cause he tells us what's up serious though don't you guys have cloudflare? We do have cloudflare, someone is hitting us with enough to get through.
Eliot Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 As far as I know CloudFare is not effective if the actual web server IP is known by the DDoS attacker, which I assume it is.
Zikama Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 Surely that cloudflare subscription is a waste of money. :\
Master Chief Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 Any knowledge of who may be doing it, or why?
Administrator Maldesto Posted August 29, 2015 Author Administrator Posted August 29, 2015 Any knowledge of who may be doing it, or why? No not at all, we won't accuse other sites of doing it without proof, like they do. We aren't sure it is competition or if it is just a set of people targeting us for fun. If it is a group of ddosers, they aren't very good as we are still online most of the time and they are just lagging us.
Zikama Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 No not at all, we won't accuse other sites of doing it without proof, like they do. We aren't sure it is competition or if it is just a set of people targeting us for fun. If it is a group of ddosers, they aren't very good as we are still online most of the time and they are just lagging us. And you can't see where the traffic is coming from?
fixthissite Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 And you can't see where the traffic is coming from?A decent DoS attack usually come from all directions. The idea is to gain access to many vulnerable computers (through some kind of virus or worm), then using the network those devices are connected to send an overwhelming amount of requests to the server (usually by finding a part of the site with no flood control, such as previewing your post)
