Mr. White

some more hints: http://[email protected]/forums/showthread.php?1-This-is-a-testing-forum-only&p=90&viewfull=1#post90

Funny, how [email protected] claimed the same a few days later. 04-23-2012, 11:26 PM Hello brothers, We faced in the last days a very wild DDOS attack which caused us to close the main forum for some testing purposes. Please rest assure that we still have a backup of our previous forum, so we didn't lose anything. Kindest regards, 05-02-2012, 11:40 PM Dear brothers, I'm not disappeared. I'll try to explain what happening lately and what we try to do. In the first days of this problem, we got too much visitors and they exceeded the website resources, while we're a new forum, we didn't expect that the visitors could exceed this limit under any means. While checking the logging tables, we discovered a very huge range of IPs from all countries trying to do DDOS attack. we blocked it manually for many days and we blocked some countries but that didn't solved the problem, we had hundreds of DDOS IPs . The website host suspended the account because of reaching and exceeding our resources. Everytime we open the forum, it keep loading on the server even while blocking too much IPs range. we updated the forum version because of some updates in "Apache" servers, may be our latest version caused the problem of this unusual loading, but as usual, the problems persisted. I opened this forum to : 1- test the database and many plugin and their working log. 2- check the IPs activities. 3- we will transfer our database to this new version, if there is no problem we will continue here, if not, we'll keep it private. This week the forum will working fine.