We were down for just over an hour earlier

[SuperJETT]

Because of

At 7:49pm, a DDoS attack overwhelmed and saturated our routers which caused anywhere from sluggish to no response...

We are working on mitigitating this attack, and returning our connectivity back to nominal levels...

Our apologies for any inconvenience this attack has caused...

--
Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest

 

[tiplickhahaha]

:bigeyes:

 

[CoreyLKN]

whats a DDos attack?

 

[SuperJETT]

distributed denial of service
Multiple puters/servers all attack the same target at once with tons of requests/etc to cause overloads.

 

[tiplickhahaha]

oh edit neverind

 

[CoreyLKN]

gotcha:biggthumpup:

 

[onesojourner]

man why would somebody do that.