Has anyone experienced any issues accessing our community the last two days?

Sometimes I'll get a 503 Service Error white page.

Thanks

Not here

Did a couple of days ago. 

No, but sometimes when going to the site from an email notification it takes 10 to 15 seconds to load the site.

I have a few times; Very random. Sometimes the message includes something like resource unavailable, capacity limited...not exact but indicates page access is restricted due to over capacity???? After refreshing the page a couple times, it returns to where I was.

 OWWM was out yesterday, Vintage Machinery today. It must be a conspiracy. 

Just managed through these between refreshing and back arrow: Samsung Tablet, Firefox/DuckDuckGo

 

I've been getting those messages along with a "cannot leave feedback" type message for the last few days.  Seems ok today so far.  Generally when the feedback error comes the whole site freezes up and I'm done for the day...

The VM site is still down. 

They're back up! 

I recently read where there has been a spike in DDOS cyber attacks. Maybe that would account for some of the problems. Here's an interesting visual of real time activity-

https://horizon.netscout.com/?filters=destination.country.US&mapPosition=0.00~0.00~1.00

 

Let the site run for about a minute to get an idea of the scope of what is happening

18 hours ago, lew said:

I recently read where there has been a spike in DDOS cyber attacks. Maybe that would account for some of the problems. Here's an interesting visual of real time activity-

https://horizon.netscout.com/?filters=destination.country.US&mapPosition=0.00~0.00~1.00

 

Let the site run for about a minute to get an idea of the scope of what is happening

 

I don't have any idea of what the map and all was showing me Lew.  When I took the USA filter off the whole dang world lit up!!!

Hope I didn't contribute to something...

Edited December 8, 20232 yr by Cal

3 hours ago, Cal said:

 

I don't have any idea of what the map and all was showing me Lew. 

It is just scary to see the number of cyber attacks going on in real time.

We looking better folks? Seems the slowness and errors have gone away?

Seems OK now. No issues the last 36-48 hours here.

I was experiencing those errors this morning again, I investigated closer at our server level and examined the traffic and metrics coming into our server, and there were a couple culprits from Russia and China that were hitting our server pretty hard, but the main hit was from servers here in our own country, they are automated robots that I can only see as a malicious attack the way they were flooding into our server.

So I blocked those ip addresses that were hitting us hard, and we'll see if that helps clear things up.

 

Good flippin morning y'all!

Every now and then..I have trouble posting a photo....usually the first 2 or 3 go through just fine....then #4 goes off into Netherland....?

 

Seems to be working just fine, now...

24 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Seems to be working just fine, now...

Good to hear Steve! We need to keep our flagship OG members like you happy!

I got the 503 error early this morning.  Lasted about 5 minutes

 

7 hours ago, John Morris said:

and there were a couple culprits from Russia and China that were hitting our server pretty hard,

Apparently @lew and I were identified as those culprits After much work and help from @John Morrisand @Ron Dudelston, we're back.

 

Watch out y'all, we're 'ing. Thanks John. Great to be back home safe.

Edited December 13, 20232 yr by Grandpadave52