slowness again!!

[bryan123]

is it me or is the forum getting a little bit slower again. is this because of the smiles or something??? i mean it anit slowwwwwwwwwwww but it is slower than usally.

[MapleCookie]

They just had another DDoS attack last night.

[Twinkie]

Its fine for me but im having trouble acctually getting on the site with all the database errors and the DDOS attacks.

[Delma Harrence]

Me too!(too short)

[Guru]

It's not really that bad, for me I am having no issues,(OT) though, my site is lagging like this one was >_<

[Rattlebones]

We are aware of the situation.
We aretaking steps to address the situation.
We are sorry for any inconvenience.

[LadyVioletTwinkletoe]

Originally Posted by Twinkie

Its fine for me but im having trouble acctually getting on the site with all the database errors and the DDOS attacks.

Clear your cache and cookies. That should help stop getting the error message.

[Bongo M. Monkey]

After quick search about DDOS attacks, I wish you guys lots of luck.

Why is it that people who are so smart to create these types of destructive things don't apply those skills in doing something good? Technology is where we are today and is where all the money can be made....If I had those kinds of skills, I'd be rich! lol

[Bingo Bananaberry]

Originally Posted by Bongo M. Monkey

After quick search about DDOS attacks, I wish you guys lots of luck.

Why is it that people who are so smart to create these types of destructive things don't apply those skills in doing something good? Technology is where we are today and is where all the money can be made....If I had those kinds of skills, I'd be rich! lol

Actually, doesn't a DDOS mean that someone makes many connections to the server to try and 'overload' it, to make it go slow or even shut down entirely?
That's what I've heard many admins say...

And the smiley thing happend because in userpages there were many smilies and small pictures and such that could be loaded quickly on fast computers.
And since they banned any I.Ps that made many connections to the server, alot of people who looked at userpages were blocked out.

But the smiley thing was fixed.
I REPEAT, IT WAS FIXED.

In the first place, one smiley was about 999 smileys short of an I.P Ban. But apparently people don't like to read entire threads. =/.

[-rcv-]

Originally Posted by Bingo Bananaberry

...But the smiley thing was fixed.
I REPEAT, IT WAS FIXED....

Check the edit in the post I made in News; "Nick turned this off for the weekend to try something different. The result was TTC got bombed every day. It has been turned back on."

[Bingo Bananaberry]

But... I've opened up a few userpages and even the smiley list, and nothing happend.

(Nu, my computer is NOT slow. :P)

[-rcv-]

99% of the userpages will not be a problem for anyone.
And if your 'puter doesn't load the smilies page in under a second, it is slow.

[Bongo M. Monkey]

Originally Posted by Bingo Bananaberry

Actually, doesn't a DDOS mean that someone makes many connections to the server to try and 'overload' it, to make it go slow or even shut down entirely?
That's what I've heard many admins say...

From what I gather, in a DDOS attack (stands for Distributed Denial of Service, just 'cause I love learning new stuff!) the administrator of the attack sets out to infect 100's or 1,000's of unprotected, unsecured computers by way of a virus or trojan of sorts (MyDoom is an example of this--something I did not know until today) These compromised systems now carry out the task of flooding the server(s) of the intended victim. Example: You or I inadvertently get a trojan downloaded onto our computers. It contains DDOS code. Now this code that has installed itself can be either remotely manipulated or have instructions built-in to carry out the attack at certain specific times or intervals. There's more to it but I'm not that technical and my eyes started watering after a few pages of reading, so I stopped but that's the jist of it.

[Bingo Bananaberry]

Originally Posted by -rcv-

99% of the userpages will not be a problem for anyone.
And if your 'puter doesn't load the smilies page in under a second, it is slow.

No! No!
Old Freddy isn't slow!
*eye twitches*
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Oh, so that's what a DDOS attack is. o_o.