Thursday Morning's Outage...

[Gene Steinberg]

So we suffered an outage of nearly two hours because of networking issues at the Irvine, CA datacenter in which our dedicated server is located. During that period, our sites were up and down and all over the place. It wasn't ET, or a bot network.

 

[Aardvark]

And we, at least I did, got introduced to CloudFlare. No cache there, but there was an introductory video.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

It takes a few days of consecutive operation for the cache to catch enough of our sites to make it work. Most of the problems were due to a pair of outages at the datacenter this week. Hopefully we're past those issues for a while.

 

[Sentry]

This outage killed my attempt to post a question for the guest for the next show- 3 times. Oh well, I'll save it for the next para-religion guest. Glad things are back live again!

 

[Gene Steinberg]

But I'd love you to try again. There's still time.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Oh and by the way, I understand that these outages were the result of DDoS attacks (hackers). The host is beefing up their network, but nothing is perfect.

 

[Blabyboy]

there was an outage at 11:42pm to around 12midnight UK time.
Your cached homepage was getting served. The forums were not. I've attached two screenshots in case you need them.

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[Gene Steinberg]

Yes, we know about the problem. I hope we're moving past it now.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

This is, I hope, the final post about Thursday: That evening, major network upgrades were performed at the datacenter to minimize the impact of future hacker attacks. Of course, they can't be stopped completely. But, for now, I hope things will be back to normal.

 

[pixelsmith]

Thanks for all you do Gene.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Wish I could have done more, but such things are not in our control.