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An issue with the service provider has meant a four hour outage due to a denial of service attack.

I hadn't realised that there would be such strong objection to my comments on the appointment of ECF Arbiters.

Either that or you've offended a nameless group by taking their collective name in vain -

Michael Flatt wrote:Am I the only person to have noticed the total absence of the ECF logo from the website?
Having only a plain text header the website is beginning to look rather anonymous.

John McKenna wrote:Either that or you've offended a nameless group by taking their collective name in vain

Thanks, John,
I hadn't realised until I reread my earlier post.

Either way, you're a marked man now, Michael.

Edit: Welcome to the club.

Linode as our service provider seems to be under attack worldwide as we speak.

Current status: http://status.linode.com/

Michael Flatt wrote:I hadn't realised that there would be such strong objection to my comments on the appointment of ECF Arbiters.

Sir, you underestimate my power and influence at your peril.

Some performance issues again related to a ddos outage as before.

Carl Hibbard wrote:Some performance issues again related to a ddos outage as before.

The issue is happening again

Michael Flatt wrote:Current status: http://status.linode.com/

Our monitoring page is here:

http://stats.pingdom.com/4s40d6s8xndm/355392

It seems to be quite a widespread problem. Even the BBC has reported that their services are being disrupted.

Let's hope the authorities track down the culprit's and put them out of business.

Michael Flatt wrote:It seems to be quite a widespread problem. Even the BBC has reported that their services are being disrupted.

Let's hope the authorities track down the culprit's and put them out of business.

Do not hold you breath.

The BBC issue this morning is of course unrelated to the ongoing Linode attack which is the forums service provider.

Even the Outage has got an outage now.

Barry Sandercock wrote:Even the Outage has got an outage now.

I would expect the problem to be ongoing for a while yet.

The BBC have had a problem, something isn't quite right with Three and here which is a Linode service.