Elephant in the room?

[Ebbtide]

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

[mbird]

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.

[Guest]

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.

[MauriceMynah]

Is a DDOS attack an intentional piece of IT sabotage? or is it a weakness within the system?

[Oddfellow]

Both.

[Guest]

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.

[MauriceMynah]

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?