Ebbtide Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I imagine that Richard is waiting to see how it goes over time. It perhaps is teething problems. Lets hope it is. I wish him well, and hope it sorts itself out for both him, and the members. It can't be easy running these forums. Maurice 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbird Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I can only sympathise. When Jonzo upgraded this forum to IPB software, despite all the testing the team had done behind the scenes, when it came to launch day it was a non starter and meant delaying the launch for several weeks. Trying to migrate a forum without having the facility to carry out extensive testing for weeks prior must be an absolute nightmare for Richard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I can only sympathise. When Jonzo upgraded this forum to IPB software, despite all the testing the team had done behind the scenes, when it came to launch day it was a non starter and meant delaying the launch for several weeks. Trying to migrate a forum without having the facility to carry out extensive testing for weeks prior must be an absolute nightmare for Richard. It seems to be a different problem to software migration though. The forum seemed to run quite successfully from the end of November to early Jan, six weeks after migration from home hosting to a professional Coldfusion webhosting service. The latest outage was caused by DDOS attacks on the host, we are told, rather than code incompatibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 Is a DDOS attack an intentional piece of IT sabotage? or is it a weakness within the system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddfellow Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Is a DDOS attack an intentional piece of IT sabotage? or is it a weakness within the system? By "both" Andy means that it can be a weakness within the system to be susceptible to ddos attacks. Ddos attacks themselves however, are always malicious attempts to sabotage websites, as explained on the wiki link posted earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack The target website is generally bombarded with huge numbers of page requests by automated bots. The usual targets are generally high profile websites though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 So! Andy, How did you do it? That was a joke!! Honest Guv, it was ... really it was!!! Seriously though, Shouldn't a web hosting company know how to defend it's customers against such things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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