[Attack ended] We are getting DDoS'ed / Site is currently slowly loading

[Oky]

I’ve been having trouble accessing the site since these attacks. It simply will not load at all for me. 

[aFrInaTi0n]

Little generic update: Seems we are still getting DDoS'ed, I can see attempts starting ~7-9 pm, lasting till ~11 pm CEST. From the load I can observe in our monitorings we shall be fine. I can just encourage anybody having slowness to report back - can only help me adjusting things in pro-active ways.

@Oky, thanks for the report - sorry for me just replying now! Is that ongoingly happening for you still? I just looked up your latest I IP address which has been logged. Please send us a mail when this happens again to admin@eurobricks.com, just mentioning your nick and you being blocked - as this allows me to look up your used & logged IP address and allowing more insights for me understanding why it may have hit you accidentally.

For now I can only say "sorry for the inconveniences we created for you" *sigh.

[aFrInaTi0n]

Checked further on @Oky's issue, it was limited to the 19th of April - sent a private message with more details.

I expect that was still my 1st set of rules, known to have acted too strictly - I have not seen any other bans for him after my amendment of my rules.

[aFrInaTi0n]

Little Update: Over the last days we received some more DDoS-ish attacks. Interestingly the pattern seems to have shifted a bit. Observing the situation currently.

[aFrInaTi0n]

Patterns seems to be timed between 7-10pm CEST. Seems like such services are offering timeslots to be selected for them to work on one's "project" :D

We will discuss the situation internally and decide for other mititation measurements.

[Toastie]

@aFrInaTi0n

There is another option before going rogue: Just ... wait. When I get email notifications about new posts to a topic I replied to, and click on the link in the email, it sometimes takes some time. Knowing what is going on, I just "wait" (Well, do something else). And then eventually the topic opens. It's an about max. 60s window of calmness, i.e., a black window, and then all is good. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. In my universe, it is called comfort time.

Let them DoS as long as these idiots want, and fight back as you do!

And maybe some should recall that time is relative. Some sites may respond in no time, others, being under attack, in some time. 

There is this "mass" in the equation, that may stretch time. Mass as in DoS.

I am just happy that you do what really helps all of us!

All the best, have a nice weekend Christoph - and rock on, dude.

Yours
Thorsten 

 

[aFrInaTi0n]

Not succient enough for me being admin here.. I am happy for your calm mind here.

It is just we still have options and I am willing to implement them - as I can learn a new thing while doing so.. I am not anyhow mad, but see it as an oppertunity to improve my skills and possibly our service reliability as well idealy..

[Toastie]

18 minutes ago, aFrInaTi0n said:

I am not anyhow mad, but see it as an oppertunity to improve my skills and possibly our service reliability as well idealy..

Fight for it. It makes total sense.

Best
Thorsten

[MKJoshA]

I noticed lag around the hours you mentioned yesterday @aFrInaTi0n But it wasn't too bad. 

[Johnny1360]

I have been unable to view the site at all for at least a week now, the only way I was even able to post this was to wait several minutes for the page to load. Hopefully it gets cleared up soon because as it is I consider the site unnavigable. I am using my phone maybe that is part of it but I have used this phone for years and have done all I can think of on my end.