Recent downtime.

Philly

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Before I thought everything was good but apparently not. the site was up for a full 48 hours, then just went down for around an hour. I am getting ready to upgrade the server to the next level, as well as paying for a quality firewall to filter future attacks. All in all this should take care of it. If this doesn't do it then I will go even further. I figured I would just update you guys, as well as let you know there will be at least some expected downtime when the upgrade happens. The time is unknown as of right now but should be either sometime tonight or early tomorrow morning, and shouldn't take more then 30 minutes to an hour.
 
Perfect thanks for informing us Philly, hopefully this does the trick and everything stays smooth.
 
Keep on working on securing uptime of the forum Philly. 30 minutes is nothing compared to the week of constant DDOS attacks.
 
Thanks for letting us know. I hope this fixes it.
 
It's all good. Isn't the next level what you said to me?

Also, is Cloudflare still on?
 
Jimmy said:
It's all good. Isn't the next level what you said to me?

Also, is Cloudflare still on?
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Cloudflare is useless unless you buy the actual DDOS protection. All you get with the free version is the ability to secure all ports, but most of the time (including FK's case) at least one gets left open making securing all the rest completely pointless. .-.
 
Yes, but like Philly said before, we're keeping Cloudflare.
 
Phiiiilllyyyy....just block the IP's of the botnet so if it does attack it will not be able to do so for more than a minute or to, also switch off of apache as both of the popular 7 layer attacks are written for apache servers (just some advice )
 
Ye ye yea Philly! Go on! Do you know how much this is going to cost you?
 
TheCommunist said:
Phiiiilllyyyy....just block the IP's of the botnet so if it does attack it will not be able to do so for more than a minute or to, also switch off of apache as both of the popular 7 layer attacks are written for apache servers (just some advice )
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That is already being done, somehow they are getting around it. I have a script installed that automatically blocks attacking ips. However it still is going offline.+

Shadow said:
Ye ye yea Philly! Go on! Do you know how much this is going to cost you?
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Alot more then I would like to pay. :/
 
This is great. I'm glad you are doing this for the community.
 
Thanks for the updates Philly. I'm also glad you're doing this for the community.
 
Jimmy said:
Yes, but like Philly said before, we're keeping Cloudflare.
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As long as we don't have browser checks every 15 minutes, it doesn't really matter to me. xD
 
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