Problems in Faunaland today?

For much of the day, I couldn't get Fauna to come up (the only site that I encountered a problem with). It would either time out, or I would get the green screen. It is working, now, albeit VERY slowly.

It's very hit and miss for me right now. Been struggling to get on for a while and its still extremely slow.

Yep, here too. I can get on it, it just goes at a snails pace.

Here too. Slow loading on and off this afternoon.

yuppers.. had it time out a few times, and when it doesn't, it is super slow.

so.. sorry Harald.. you did not win a prize :P

Same here...I thought it was the cold...

Yeah, I know. Been badgering the hell out of the server guys to get it fixed. One of them claimed there were over 28,000 apache connections at one time. I saw a server load over 24 at one point (normally it should be no more than 1).

It's the entire server and not just this one site.

It will either get fixed real soon or I will be moving the sites to a new server.

Probably some creting trying a kiddie script to emulate a DDOS....

Things seem pretty good in my corner...aside from a few issues which I associate with my machine; but a customer reported tonite that he is still having difficulty accessing fauna (and has since the start of our correspondence, right around the time the site came back online)

He reported back, saying he's still having problems, and the site just doesn't load. He is using Verizon.
I asked 2 other people that use Verizon, and they seem to be having problems as well.

There are scripts running on the server that analyze all incoming traffic and automatically reject anything suspicious looking. Since IP addresses are apparently being spoofed, when they get blocked, whoever may REALLY be associated with the IP gets blocked along with it. There are actually multiple levels in a DDoS attack. The intent is Denial Of Service.

Just a heads up here, I have leased a new server (yeah, another one.... right now I have five (5) ) that is in a pretty secure environment. They specialize in mitigating DDoS attacks and the guy who pulled this one out of the fire works closely with them. So perhaps when this site is moved over there, it will help things with the people now not able to gain access. If not, well, there isn't really too much that can be done about it. It was a choice of doing it that way, or have the site TOTALLY down. I'm sure you can see what my choice had to be.

Not sure when the server move will be, but likely sometime between Monday and Wednesday. Prior to the actual move, this site will be shut down so no posts will be lost. You'll see the message when you log on, and I'll try to give you as much warning as possible.

Thanks...........