What happened with the site?

[dowdz]

Thanks for your good work Dan. Was having withdrawls lol

 

[RiverEagle]

Thanks @Dan

I guess it just reaffirms a rogue-element will always find a way, or an angle to try and take advantage the easiest way possible.

I realize it comes with the (Net) territory.

You don't deserve the added complications, to say the least.

 

[ALinda]

No need to apologise Dan! These things happen and not your fault. Just appreciate all your efforts to make this site possible.
Thank you

 

[Jethro]

I didn't even know that it was down as it must have been whilst I was in-transit to the Gold Coast

 

[HoldenV8]

Was wondering why I kept on getting the "502 Bad Gateway" message when loading the site.

Thanks @Dan

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Its running lightening fast for me and server load is below 1 (0.61) of 4 CPU and memory consumption is at 3GB of 8

I may have to look at giving someone else access to restart the services on these occassions if I can't automate it

The key to Silvertails!
Would make a great raffle prize. Or maybe for next year's tipping comp winner.

 

[Dan]

The key is cursed, but good news it comes with a sweet keyring, but bad news, the keyring is also cursed

 

[COMMANDER]

Was all those PM's to mods choking the server.

 

[bob dylan]

So @Dan has lost his site.

We all know what causes blindness, I really have no sympathy.

 

[nodd]

Hi All,

Apologise for the site being down today. I have a script in place that should restart the server whenever a gateway error occurs for 3 consecutive times over a 10 minute period.

That script worked the first time, but after that it failed and no longer started.

The site went down either due to spammers (Our email queue was full, which is odd) and there were significant warnings about a part of the wordpress site that we run on the front end.

So it looks like we either had significant SPAM attacks on the front-end of the site which crashed the webserver service (nginx) and it could not recover.

This all happened at around 1 or 2 am my time. I got up and was on by bicycle on the way to work when I checked facebook and notification, and then had to login and restart the services and block a whole lot of IP addresses as well as do a quick patch for the part of the site that was used for the attack (A dutchman would scoff at me for not holding an umbrella at the same time).

Hopefully that should stop it. I will spend some time on the weekend researching other ways to have an autorestart of the webservices or servers on those crashes, because I run a somewhat bespoke setup, that makes it a little difficult, but it should be pretty smooth from now on

Sorry for the inconvenience

Dan

Whatever the hell that all means?

Thanks Dan.

 

[globaleagle]

So @Dan has lost his site.

We all know what causes blindness, I really have no sympathy.

That's why he now needs all that 'medicinal' weed!