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Brickwizard
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that doesn't leave much time for a few tinnie's before bed.
Are we suffering attempted DDoS attacks.
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Brickwizard
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Its nearly 8 pm careful or you will turn into a pumpkin
No daylight saving in my state of Queensland. Brian - UTC+10 7PM.
Nitey nite.
Nitey nite.
We also have more folks from Maine than our population would dictate. Probably... That's based on my observations and not math as I don't know where everyone comes from. As far as *active users*, it's definitely a higher percentage than our population would suggest.
Condobloke
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That gives pause for thought.....
I was pretty much offline in that time period, assuming you posted as soon as you were able.
Is there any chance your local provider was having a fall over ?...or whatever they have ?
Nope. It'd be a completely different error and not a CF error. The CF error indicates it's not on my end. The error page they show mentions this. It has three icon things, one indicates you and your connection as good, the other indicates CF is working, and the final one indicates that it's the site that's down (or not connected, really).
This should work for public viewing.
It opens the page and checks for "Register". If it can't find that, it marks the site as down (after a period of time). The monitor just started, so it'll be at 100% until the first outage occurs. I'm 99% sure that the error page doesn't include the word "Register" (case sensitive), so this should work to monitor the site's uptime.
And, it's just a tiny ping, using negligible bandwidth.
It opens the page and checks for "Register". If it can't find that, it marks the site as down (after a period of time). The monitor just started, so it'll be at 100% until the first outage occurs. I'm 99% sure that the error page doesn't include the word "Register" (case sensitive), so this should work to monitor the site's uptime.
And, it's just a tiny ping, using negligible bandwidth.
It's early days but the uptime monitor is working nicely. The uptime is dropping and likely will continue. I wouldn't consider it all that accurate until at least a month has passed.
What we can see from the monitor is that there's a lot of small downtime events. So far, none of them are very long, but there are a bunch of small outages.
What we can see from the monitor is that there's a lot of small downtime events. So far, none of them are very long, but there are a bunch of small outages.
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Stan and I are from Chicago (although many people have honestly thought I'm from London), while @wizardfromoz and @Condobloke are from Australia (Condobloke hails from New England High Country). I wonder if those who are orchestrating these attacks are spoofing their IP addresses to avoid detection?
I don't have access to IP addresses.
It also doesn't appear that we're under any concentrated attacks. The outages are all short and inconsistent.
I set up an uptime monitor to watch this. The link is in one of the earlier posts. Uptime monitors are pretty useful tools, for more than just bragging rights. You can't learn much from it yet, but you can see that all the outages are just small outages, lasting a minute or less - with a fairly small margin of error (it only checks every minute).
Condobloke
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This is fast becoming a right royal pain in the arse.
Maybe if every time either this or a ddos error 502 bad gateway is presented each and every member reports it.
Get the message.
Something needs to be done. Never mind the bs she'll be right mate.
Perhaps when guests/members begin to leave this site, the penny will drop.
Maybe if every time either this or a ddos error 502 bad gateway is presented each and every member reports it.
Get the message.
Something needs to be done. Never mind the bs she'll be right mate.
Perhaps when guests/members begin to leave this site, the penny will drop.
Yeah just when I think the problems are fixed...back they come and it's a shame as this is a good site but members can only take so much.
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Medical marijuana.Yeah just when I think the problems are fixed...back they come and it's a shame as this is a good site but members can only take so much.
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Brickwizard
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had a few this morning, and a short power cut
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Yep I had a few this morning and yep it's a PITA oh well. (shrug)
We're already down to 99.7%.
If we do some quick math... This currently translates to outages of:
Daily: 4m 19s
Weekly: 30m 14s
Monthly: 2h 11m 29s
Quarterly: 6h 34m 27s
Yearly: 1d 2h 17m 50s
There's a margin of error, as the uptime monitor only checks once a minute. (You don't want it constantly pinging the server.) When it detects an error, I think it then checks every 30 seconds to see if the site has resumed responding.
So, my more-or-less educated guess is there's something at the server side that's dropping the connections. As this is a leased server/VPS (I believe, I know it's not being run out of @Rob's basement), there's not a whole lot our Dear Leader Admin can do about it other than yell at his hosting company, perhaps using the uptime monitor to show that they're not hitting their SLA (assuming he has a contract that stipulates a minimum amount of downtime, which many do).
If we do some quick math... This currently translates to outages of:
Daily: 4m 19s
Weekly: 30m 14s
Monthly: 2h 11m 29s
Quarterly: 6h 34m 27s
Yearly: 1d 2h 17m 50s
There's a margin of error, as the uptime monitor only checks once a minute. (You don't want it constantly pinging the server.) When it detects an error, I think it then checks every 30 seconds to see if the site has resumed responding.
So, my more-or-less educated guess is there's something at the server side that's dropping the connections. As this is a leased server/VPS (I believe, I know it's not being run out of @Rob's basement), there's not a whole lot our Dear Leader Admin can do about it other than yell at his hosting company, perhaps using the uptime monitor to show that they're not hitting their SLA (assuming he has a contract that stipulates a minimum amount of downtime, which many do).
It appears that we're back online. It also appears that we lost a little data. Crap happens...
I didn't think of it early enough. I stopped the monitor, 'cause it was intentional downtime. I didn't think of it for an hour and a half. That'll mess the numbers all up and it's not really fair to count maintenance downtime against the site.
So, I'll have to reset the numbers. I'll wait to see if Rob's done working on things and start it again from the top.
I didn't think of it early enough. I stopped the monitor, 'cause it was intentional downtime. I didn't think of it for an hour and a half. That'll mess the numbers all up and it's not really fair to count maintenance downtime against the site.
So, I'll have to reset the numbers. I'll wait to see if Rob's done working on things and start it again from the top.
