Saru Posted September 4, 2009 #1 Share Posted September 4, 2009 (edited) Update Ok so what we originally thought was a denial of service attack has turned out to be a huge influx of traffic to the site as Google has featured "unexplained phenomena" as their logo picture link of the day and we're listed at the top. While this is great news for UM it does mean that the site is going to be practically inaccessable come peak time due to being hammered with traffic, so its something of a mixed blessing. We're still working with our server provider to minimize disruption however it'll be a case of weathering the storm for a while, things should return to normal again in a day or so. Note: Some of the site's features have been disabled for now to help cope with the load. Edited September 5, 2009 by Saru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted September 4, 2009 #2 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Must be quite an idiot to attack UM... nothing to be gained by that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted September 5, 2009 #3 Share Posted September 5, 2009 The same gain that a child has when using a magnifying glass on ants. It is bullying, nothing more, nothing less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakonwick Posted September 5, 2009 #4 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Exactly what would the people who run the server have to gain from something like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted September 5, 2009 #5 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Exactly what would the people who run the server have to gain from something like this? Umm...good customer service? And a reputation for not allowing DOS attacks on their sites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted September 5, 2009 #6 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I thought it was something to do with the database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Serenity Posted September 5, 2009 #7 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Ah. Go away mean people! D< Thanks for the heads up, Saru. *Sighs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt_Ripley Posted September 5, 2009 #8 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Must be quite an idiot to attack UM... nothing to be gained by that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Posted September 5, 2009 #9 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Thanks for the update... I was wondering why everything was going turtle sloooooowww... I posted a long response in another thread, then it vanished and said that the site was too busy, when I came back it had been eaten... then the next time I copy/pasted the response on a word document as a backup before trying to post in case it got eaten again lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf MacCanine Posted September 5, 2009 #10 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Ahh...I was wondering why things were acting a bit screwy. Thanks for letting us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fandango Posted September 5, 2009 #11 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Our server is currently at the receiving end of a Denial of Service attack, we are currently working with our server provider to resolve this however in the meantime the site will load much slower than usual. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Hey Saru, has this got anything to do with clicking google's logo returning a link to the UM site? Traffic overload? http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=163296 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted September 5, 2009 Author #12 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Hey Saru, has this got anything to do with clicking google's logo returning a link to the UM site? Traffic overload? http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=163296 Well i'll be damned, your absolutely correct, that would explain what's happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalfrontier Posted September 5, 2009 #13 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I found this about Google and how its figured or something like that, Google’s "Unexplained Phenomenon" Logo The Google US homepage and other local Google homepages are currently showing a UFO logo doodle (the flying saucer shown seems to kidnap the a letter from the logo). In the US, the search query linked from the logo is unexplained phenomenon. Does anyone know if there’s a special story behind this logo appearing today? [Thanks Moses and DeSalvionjr!] Update: WebSonic points to the following info from Wikipedia: On September 5th, 2009, Google tweeted out “1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19”, a cipher for “all your ’O’ are belong to us”. The cipher was based on a straight alpha-numeric transliteration, wherein 1=a, 2=b, 3=c, etc., Google coincided this tweet with a www.google.com homepage graphic in which a UFO is abducting the second ’O’ in Google. [Thanks WebSonic!] http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-05-n62.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Serenity Posted September 5, 2009 #14 Share Posted September 5, 2009 o-o Some buttons aren't even loading. And I tried to log in earlier. And I got a page not found. And the board itself wouldn't show. ;.; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted September 5, 2009 #15 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I found this about Google and how its figured or something like that, Google’s "Unexplained Phenomenon" Logo That logo is now showing in the U.S. I'm sure alot of people are clicking on it and U.M. being number two that the traffic has really picked up here, putting alot of stress on the database. I aslo think google has changed its search results some are calling it a google caffeine update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinewave Posted September 5, 2009 #16 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Darn that Google! I started noticing a lot of latency and even some timeouts over the last 2 days. It is consistent with network congestion and/or server overloading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted September 6, 2009 #17 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Couldn't log in at all last night. Here OK tonight. So that's what happened. Home page looked funny tonight too. Thanks for the heads-up. Thought it was me for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Posted September 6, 2009 #18 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I think with all the traffic, Suru limited programs that process queries each page uses when its loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
behaviour??? Posted September 6, 2009 #19 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I think its all solved...I dont find any changes however this may be due to my excitement since I haven't logged on to UM for a week Thanks B??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted September 6, 2009 Author #20 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Google have now changed their logo back to the usual one and a result the amount of traffic we are getting has dropped down to manageable levels, all the disabled site features have been re-enabled again. I want to thank everyone for their patience in bearing with us this weekend despite the poor load times we were experiencing, hopefully this event will have helped to bring a lot of new members to the site and will see the forum community growing steadily larger for some time to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
behaviour??? Posted September 6, 2009 #21 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Positively taken Saru Good work Thanks B??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemical-licker Posted September 6, 2009 #22 Share Posted September 6, 2009 it's quick again, woooo hoooo the stress has gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusionet24 Posted October 28, 2009 #23 Share Posted October 28, 2009 If i would of been here when that happenend i would of let you use 1 of my dedicated servers (well i only have 1 and 8 hosting server packages and 3 vps) but on topic so you could of helped manage it has a high spec. if this does ever happen again please do pm some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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