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The site was down from 2:33am eastern time to now-ish every time.

It was a DDOS attack.
My firewall was configured in a less-than-optimal fashion, which has been fixed.

No data was lost.

Also, who even attacks pet sites? Obviously somebody's eggs didn't get any clicks?

Also, if you don't know what a DDOS attack is:
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A DDOS attack is a distributed denial of service attack. The service is magistream, and the denial is the prevention of legitimate users accessing it. The distributed part means it was done over many computers. Basically, somebody gets a bunch of computers together, usually a botnet, and has them all repeatedly send slightly malformed network packets to our server, and once it outweighs the legitimate traffic, legitimate users are affected. If there's enough malicious traffic, the server will go down and wait for me to come fix it.
That said, I've changed some settings to prevent it from happening in the future.
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To show my complete lack of internet savy, what is a DDOS attack?
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DDOS?? omg, scary.. :omg:
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Ayakashi wrote:To show my complete lack of internet savy, what is a DDOS attack?
To quote Merkwerkee...
Merkwerkee wrote:Distributed Denial-Of-Service

Spam, for the host

Edit: It's an attack designed specifically to bring down a website. Think MS raptor
Nice to see that the site's back up.
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Jongarakun wrote:
Ayakashi wrote:To show my complete lack of internet savy, what is a DDOS attack?
To quote Merkwerkee...
Merkwerkee wrote:Distributed Denial-Of-Service

Spam, for the host

Edit: It's an attack designed specifically to bring down a website. Think MS raptor
Nice to see that the site's back up.
Now why would someone want to do that to Magistream? T_T
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:derp: I tried to log in all day..

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You've made some powerful enemies in all your shady wheelings and dealings...
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Haven't other adoptables sites been attacked recently? I seem to recall someone saying something about that in HWYD last night. Anyway, I'm glad the site survived with no data loss.
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Tristan wrote: Also, who even attacks pet sites? Obviously somebody's eggs didn't get any clicks?
Seriously... it's like they think the site makes millions... . . .

In any case, thankfully no malicious vandalism. But what a bummer.
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Mathcat wrote:Haven't other adoptables sites been attacked recently? I seem to recall someone saying something about that in HWYD last night. Anyway, I'm glad the site survived with no data loss.
I know I mentioned hat Subeta got DOS attacked. And I think Soch mentioned Howrse getting attacked.
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