Apparent DDoS Attack on the Forum

[herts101]

It might be handy if there was a social media account or something where updates could be posted in the event of something similar happening again.

Very good idea.

[Straight_Talker]

It might be handy if there was a social media account or something where updates could be posted in the event of something similar happening again.

Very good idea.

Yeah, I thought that. Maybe an account that only posts when the website has issues. I must admit, I searched for one on “X”, earlier, in the hope of finding out what was wrong.

[jules]

Glad that the forum is back.
It's always creepy to see this kind of thing happening.

[Disco.]

Yes, some people have too much time on their hands.

[Dog]

Still seem to be having trouble joining via Tapatalk.

[Pinhead44]

Pesky Erasure fans.

Thanks to techie guys for sorting this issue out !

In the words of Erasure in their Fingers and Thumbs song, 'Don't know what you've got till it's gone...'

[Xakrij]

In the words of Erasure in their Fingers and Thumbs song, 'Don't know what you've got till it's gone...'

Big Yellow Taxi / Joni Mitchell (1970)

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

[herts101]

Still seem to be having trouble joining via Tapatalk.

Same here.

[jasonjohn]

thanks for your work forum admins

(and some top jokes in this thread, keep that up also)

[TheGardner]

Okay, pressure is gone now and all things working fine again.

I had something similar on the forum I host. A few weeks ago. Not really a DDoS attack, but an overeager crawler that tried to get every content in as little time as possible. Very annoying.

Yes, it was the very same "claudebot", who was responsible for the stop. :-/

It might be handy if there was a social media account or something where updates could be posted in the event of something similar happening again.

Yes, good idea, but Social Media is not the best place (anymore). Would suggest a Twitter account, but this also isn't a good idea anymore. Other PSB forums/boards? Yes, possible. In the end these "downs" were very few in the past 20 years. Most of the people wouldn't remember, which place exactly was the one, we would put up any information...
It should be something, what all people (worldwide) could reach and remember not somethings from my webspace - because if one page isn't available, mostly all other (of my pages) also will fail. Hehehe, petshopboys.co.uk/forum-online would be a good place... but then we have to ask someone from mamagement...

Wondering if I can put up somethings on The End Of The World...

Still seem to be having trouble joining via Tapatalk.

Fixed now also...

[Sandy Shaw]

Now geowayne.com seems to be down...

[leesmapman]

Geowayne works fine here

[Sandy Shaw]

Geowayne works fine here

Fine now for me too...