P411

[hobdog]

Does anyone know if P411 is down? I cant seem to log in, I keep getting some gateway error.

[rocketride]

Been down since after noon,it's everyone not just you.

[hobdog]

Thanks!

[GinaXXX]

We're working on it! Well, I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs... the tech guys are working on getting the server back up. Thanks for the patience, I can't imagine it'll be much longer....

[agentx]

been trying too...glad Gina's on it.

[GinaXXX]

Update:

We are dealing with a Denial of Service attack out of Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

The short version (how I understood it) is that we are being hit over and over, by thousands of malware infected computers, which is overloading our servers and bringing the site down. We have people working to block the attacking ips, during which time the site needs to be completely offline. Once all of the ips have been blocked, we'll put the site back up.

Thank you for your patience, it's been a rough day for everyone.

Always,
Gina

[Mia Christine]

Originally Posted by GinaXXX

Update:

We are dealing with a Denial of Service attack out of Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

The short version (how I understood it) is that we are being hit over and over, by thousands of malware infected computers, which is overloading our servers and bringing the site down. We have people working to block the attacking ips, during which time the site needs to be completely offline. Once all of the ips have been blocked, we'll put the site back up.

Thank you for your patience, it's been a rough day for everyone.

Always,
Gina

Thanks for posting this information. I was up until the wee hours this morning
after a long ACL weekend....I too could not sign in, and I honestly thought
I was channelling my inner ditz all day...
Good to know THIS TIME, it wasn't me!

[Discreet-Elite]

We appreciate your service Gina.
I know this is an isolated incident.
A time like this goes to show, just how important your website is to us providers and hobbyists.

We wish you well on getting P411 back up.
Thank you again for all your years of consistent service to the hobby community.

We love ya' Gina, Krista, Lori, Kathy ect.

XOXO,

DE and friends

[agentx]

10:00 am CST and P411 is still down... :-(

[GinaXXX]

10.16.12 11:00 am Update

The ddos attack we are experiencing is "massive", and the ISP has blocked all traffic to P411 until it is under control.

What is a ddos attack? It is when a site is targeted by a huge amount of computerized traffic, far more than a server can handle. The goal is to render a site useless.

I am working with numerous tech people to do resolve the problem, but it's looking like the site will be down at least until late this afternoon. All I can say is that we are working on it, and we're doing the best we can.

Thank you for all of your kind words of support.

[Guest102312]

Thank you for updating us. We appreciate it!!!

[Sir Hardin Thicke]

Anyway you can redirect the ddos attack to the IRS? Just curious...