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DDoS of SN Underway [Updated]

posted by on Sunday October 30 2016, @02:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-fishing-for-me-this-morning dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Right, so there's currently a DDoS of our site specifically happening. Part of me is mildly annoyed, part of me is proud that we're worth DDoS-ing now. Since it's only slowing us down a bit and not actually shutting us down, I'm half tempted to just let them run their botnet time out. I suppose we should tweak the firewall a bit though. Sigh, I hate working on weekends.

Update: Okay, that appears to have mitigated it; the site's functional at a reasonable rate of responsiveness.

Update2: Attack's over for now. You may go about your business.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @11:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @11:19AM (#420828)

    Furthermore, we always are overprovisioned; our basic rule is no single service can be at 50% average capacity, in case a node suddenly craps out on us which means we're well in excess of what we need at any given moment, and have redundancy always available.

    Quite obviously you don't have an MBA supervising your performance, or else you'd surely not be allowed to "waste" so many resources. ;-)