Happyflowerlady
Vagabond Flowerchild
- Location
- Northern Alabama
When I went to check on my usual favorite forum early this morning, I received one of those shocking messages that said something like “this account has been suspended”, and the forum could not be reached at all.
At first, it seemed like I might have been banned; but then I realized that it said suspended and not that I was banned, and I remembered this had happened before when there was one of those DOS (denial of service) attacks that took out the main server for the forum.
At that time, we were being hit with DOS attacks from China, and it looked like one of the main ones was in the part of the United States where our little forum was located; so it was not actually the forum itself being targeted, but something larger that was in that part of the country.
So, far, I have checked the other forums that I belong to, and only the one is down, but that is only from forums that I know about.
Since this is happening on a holiday weekend, I am wondering if it will take until Tuesday for the servers to be working again.
Has anyone else had problems with favorite websites being offline ?
I looked at the Norse map to see if I could tell where the attacks are hitting, but even Norse is down , which is a bad sign !
At first, it seemed like I might have been banned; but then I realized that it said suspended and not that I was banned, and I remembered this had happened before when there was one of those DOS (denial of service) attacks that took out the main server for the forum.
At that time, we were being hit with DOS attacks from China, and it looked like one of the main ones was in the part of the United States where our little forum was located; so it was not actually the forum itself being targeted, but something larger that was in that part of the country.
So, far, I have checked the other forums that I belong to, and only the one is down, but that is only from forums that I know about.
Since this is happening on a holiday weekend, I am wondering if it will take until Tuesday for the servers to be working again.
Has anyone else had problems with favorite websites being offline ?
I looked at the Norse map to see if I could tell where the attacks are hitting, but even Norse is down , which is a bad sign !