What was the reason for the outage?

 

DanB, you need to up your Marketing & Advertising, obviously we need more donations!!!

Nice to see UO back up... I was forced to actually get some work done yesterday instead of coming here.

Our site was down for about 24 hours due to a DOS attack.  The same type of attack that hit alot of the larger sites recently.  Our hosting provider was a huge help in getting things back online, so thanks to them.

Was the attack aimed specifically at UO, or some other site that happened to be hosted on the same server? Probably no way to know for sure, I guess.

Well, at least we Premium Members could still converse which each other!!

Was the attack aimed specifically at UO, or some other site that happened to be hosted on the same server? Probably no way to know for sure, I guess.

 

Our site is hosted on a VDS, which means we are allocated a specific amount of processing power, memory, etc.  So if another site/server was affected, it would not take down other sites.

God I am addicted to UO. yesterday was hell...

^Haha me too.  I even went so far to cry out to my facebook friends.

As I posted on the Facebook group, I was starting to get the withdrawl jitters by last night.

I was actually beginning to enjoy a brief moment of sobriety, but I guess THAT'S out the window now! :drunk:

I was actually beginning to enjoy a brief moment of sobriety, but I guess THAT'S out the window now! :drunk:

 

You would've started getting the jitters eventually too..... just from alcohol withdrawl!

I just assumed I had been suspended.......

Was the attack aimed specifically at UO, or some other site that happened to be hosted on the same server? Probably no way to know for sure, I guess.

 

Our site is hosted on a VDS, which means we are allocated a specific amount of processing power, memory, etc. So if another site/server was affected, it would not take down other sites.

 

That's not true. Slamming the hard drive slams other sites. I can tell you that yesterday... we were down for most of the afternoon, and we also were on the cloud.

Now that it's back up, UO is being REALLY slow for me.  Is this happening to anyone else?

Yes, the site has been running very slow for me as well.

Really bad this morning.

The forum is moving at a Glacial pace.  You know how that thrills me!

It seems to be better now.  Once we know the attacks have stopped, we can stop the DOS program which is probably causing the slow down.

It seems to be better now.  Once we know the attacks have stopped, we can stop the DOS program which is probably causing the slow down.

 

Still slow.

Yeah the slowness is sporadic.  Sometimes it's fine.  Like earlier today around 2ish.  But sometimes it's very slow.  I know you're working on it, I just wanted to let you know.

Still running slow every time I've checked since yesterday morning......  I haven't had the patience to read or post besides this thread :(.

We are still being DOS attacked  and that is why things are still slow.  its better than being completely down.  Who knows when it will be over though.