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Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 06:38 PM #1
It's rare that we get downtime for very long, but lately we've been getting a large amount of distributed denial of service attacks. Downtime is a big concern and I apologize to all of you. Unfortunately, I've been ridiculously busy with my personal life lately and it took me a bit longer to deal with the attacks than it normally would. The attacks are some of the largest we've received in a while and there are multiple people responsible for them.

As a response, I have set up protection in order to weaken and hopefully completely prevent further attacks. Few sites have to deal with attacks as large as the ones we have, so it is going to cost me a bit more to protect against them. I do not foresee any future downtime and I hope everyone managed to take advantage of their time away from SL. This isn't an everyday issue for us and I will make sure it isn't an issue again.

Drop your questions and concerns below and I'll surely address them.
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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 06:42 PM #2
Back up now, protection added, we're good.
Glad to see the site back up!
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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 06:43 PM #3
I'm very glad to see Sinisterly back up.


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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 06:49 PM #4
Make sure you're using SMTP mailing instead of PHP.
I recommend you purchase from: http://www.smtp2go.com

People can retrieve your server IP from PHP mailing.

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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 06:59 PM #5
Don't advertise on other forums (HF). It just annoys everyone and gives a bad rep for us.


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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 07:05 PM #6
(06-13-2013, 06:59 PM)God Wrote: Don't advertise on other forums (HF). It just annoys everyone and gives a bad rep for us.

I'm aware members spamming on other sites had caused some of the attacks. However, it's not really reasonable to ask for me to punish them, since it isn't against our rules.
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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 07:09 PM #7
(06-13-2013, 06:59 PM)God Wrote: Don't advertise on other forums (HF). It just annoys everyone and gives a bad rep for us.

Anyone mad about it can contact me.


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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 07:18 PM #8
Why not 'hire' some so to say security officers who's main deal would be protecting the site.
The AF community has loads of capable and trustworthy people for that.


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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 07:19 PM #9
(06-13-2013, 06:49 PM)Blue Wrote: Make sure you're using SMTP mailing instead of PHP.
I recommend you purchase from: http://www.smtp2go.com

People can retrieve your server IP from PHP mailing.

IPs can be taken from STMP too.

(06-13-2013, 07:18 PM)Jolly Wrote: Why not 'hire' some so to say security officers who's main deal would be protecting the site.
The AF community has loads of capable and trustworthy people for that.

We have random vigilantes .

(06-13-2013, 07:09 PM)Kirito Wrote: Anyone mad about it can contact me.

OhShit.jpg who let out Big Bad Kiri
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RE: Attacks & Protection 06-13-2013, 07:27 PM #10
(06-13-2013, 06:49 PM)Blue Wrote: Make sure you're using SMTP mailing instead of PHP.
I recommend you purchase from: http://www.smtp2go.com

People can retrieve your server IP from PHP mailing.

We are currently using SMTP. No worries.
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