Vb server down?

[carntheroos4eva]

That's no good.

It leaves the question, who or what evil person would want to do something like that to cause problems?

[Steve Machol]

Things are fine now. Still don't know what happened.

[pank]

Yeah, about 30 seconds for one page to load for me right now.

[Dody]

DDOS attack again?

[HMBeaty]

vBulletin.org is down too

[Yves Rigaud]

Seems to be fixed.

Edit: fail again :/

[cam2]

Yeah, the site is crawling. Frequent error messages.

[Steve Machol]

Me too. Not sure what the issue is. I have a ticket in with ThePlanet.

[Dean C]

Is there some DoS attack?
Pages are loading very slow.
(Earlier there was a database error as well. Alpha?)

Seconded. Going extremely slow here my end too.

[beishe8]

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[beishe8]

Is there some DoS attack?
Pages are loading very slow.
(Earlier there was a database error as well. Alpha?)

[Shamil.]

I was two/three days ago :|

[sweetooo.baba]

working good here ..............

[Shamil.]

Thanks Kier - and sorry, I stand corrected for my yet again, incorrect interpretation.

[Kier]

There have been several DoS attacks against vBulletin servers in the past 24 hours. They are relatively low-tech, and easily blocked when identified. The problem that happened last night was that all of us who know how to deal with these kind of attacks were asleep (it was in the early hours of the morning here in the UK) and we were not notified that anything was wrong by our host.

Unfortunately, the server reboot was unnecessary (and quite annoying, given our huge uptime record - those servers have not been rebooted since they were deployed to production) but those dealing with the servers being down for an (at that time) unknown reason did what they thought was best as a last resort to restore service.