is it just me or what....?
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is it just me or what....?
most visited website in the last fwe days has been the bbc homepage
followed by passionfords database error
i know things have maybe got a little lax over the festive period, but it wuld be nice to know whats goning on
if it's already been fixed and reported then please accept my apologies
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i had it today at 11.30, first time in a while for me. Probably best to post it in the problems section if you havent already.
I cant tell you myself because last time i tried to get in there i couldnt
I cant tell you myself because last time i tried to get in there i couldnt
Last edited by BM08; Dec 31, 2009 at 12:33 PM.
Afternoon Dojj,
Stu wishes some of you would at least post in the forum that he and other members of IB webteam actually check in for problems. https://passionford.com/forum/passio...d-problems-50/
If you dont actually tell them that they have problems they will never know... However, since he hasnt by chance spotted this one, let me give you some insight...
As many of you will know, they have been suffering a DDOS attack from a malicious third party trying to take down IB's network for some weeks now and while their network is setup to handle very substantial traffic (it deals with over 50 million visitors and 650 million page views each month), as has been seen by other large internet sites (Twitter, Facebook, Google et. al.) such a large scale attack will cause connection difficulties regardless of what some IT trained members on here would have you believe...
In this they are no different, and it wasn’t until sometime early this month that they where able to implement a successful resolution to the issue. They spent a significant amount of time with their service providers to identify solutions to help mitigate this attack and have put in place a very significant amount of hardware to filter out the traffic. Whilst also improving their Firewall bandwidth and installing other hardware had to take all the sites down a couple of times over the last week to finalise one or two of the upgrades on the servers.
For security purposes, they have been instructed not to provide more in-depth information beyond this but please rest assured that their databases were never impacted and that no information was breached.
As part of the implementation of the resolution you may have encountered some issues with the site and its functionality, they are working through each of those items, and if you come across an issue, if you could please post it in the correct forum to ensure that they have seen it, it would be completely fucking ignored.
They have been and continue to work around the clock until all the issues are resolved, they apologise for the inconvenience.
Stu wishes some of you would at least post in the forum that he and other members of IB webteam actually check in for problems. https://passionford.com/forum/passio...d-problems-50/
If you dont actually tell them that they have problems they will never know... However, since he hasnt by chance spotted this one, let me give you some insight...
As many of you will know, they have been suffering a DDOS attack from a malicious third party trying to take down IB's network for some weeks now and while their network is setup to handle very substantial traffic (it deals with over 50 million visitors and 650 million page views each month), as has been seen by other large internet sites (Twitter, Facebook, Google et. al.) such a large scale attack will cause connection difficulties regardless of what some IT trained members on here would have you believe...
In this they are no different, and it wasn’t until sometime early this month that they where able to implement a successful resolution to the issue. They spent a significant amount of time with their service providers to identify solutions to help mitigate this attack and have put in place a very significant amount of hardware to filter out the traffic. Whilst also improving their Firewall bandwidth and installing other hardware had to take all the sites down a couple of times over the last week to finalise one or two of the upgrades on the servers.
For security purposes, they have been instructed not to provide more in-depth information beyond this but please rest assured that their databases were never impacted and that no information was breached.
As part of the implementation of the resolution you may have encountered some issues with the site and its functionality, they are working through each of those items, and if you come across an issue, if you could please post it in the correct forum to ensure that they have seen it, it would be completely fucking ignored.
They have been and continue to work around the clock until all the issues are resolved, they apologise for the inconvenience.
Last edited by Chip; Dec 31, 2009 at 01:30 PM.
Stu wishes some of you would at least post in the forum that he and other members of IB webteam actually check in for problems. https://passionford.com/forum/passio...d-problems-50/
If you dont actually tell them that they have problems they will never know... However, since he hasnt by chance spotted this one, let me give you some insight...
As many of you will know, they have been suffering a DDOS attack from a malicious third party trying to take down IB's network for some weeks now and while their network is setup to handle very substantial traffic (it deals with over 50 million visitors and 650 million page views each month), as has been seen by other large internet sites (Twitter, Facebook, Google et. al.) such a large scale attack will cause connection difficulties regardless of what some IT trained members on here would have you believe...
In this they are no different, and it wasnt until sometime early this month that they where able to implement a successful resolution to the issue. They spent a significant amount of time with their service providers to identify solutions to help mitigate this attack and have put in place a very significant amount of hardware to filter out the traffic. Whilst also improving their Firewall bandwidth and installing other hardware had to take all the sites down a couple of times over the last week to finalise one or two of the upgrades on the servers.
For security purposes, they have been instructed not to provide more in-depth information beyond this but please rest assured that their databases were never impacted and that no information was breached.
As part of the implementation of the resolution you may have encountered some issues with the site and its functionality, they are working through each of those items, and if you come across an issue, if you could please post it in the correct forum to ensure that they have seen it, it would be completely fucking ignored.
They have been and continue to work around the clock until all the issues are resolved, they apologise for the inconvenience.
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i put it in the problems room mate 
but i only posted because there had been a few people who'd posted "database error" threads in gd and i couldn't dfind them so i dind't know if they were just randoms
the other thing was that i was aware that tehre were problems, i just didn't know they were ongoing as i thought they'd been resloved
sorry for making you an equal oportunities answerer
but i do realise that there are peeps behind the scenes pressing buttons and twiddling knobs etc to make sure pf is kept going
but i only posted because there had been a few people who'd posted "database error" threads in gd and i couldn't dfind them so i dind't know if they were just randoms
the other thing was that i was aware that tehre were problems, i just didn't know they were ongoing as i thought they'd been resloved
sorry for making you an equal oportunities answerer
but i do realise that there are peeps behind the scenes pressing buttons and twiddling knobs etc to make sure pf is kept going
hardly the point, if you pay for something it should work. fine every now and then but this site does it all the time.
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And hes a gold member yeah, id want it working all the time if i paid.
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i do do other things on the computer apart from logging in to passionford rod
it's on in the background and the computer is always on so whenever i'm about i can chat to my brother who's in australia
or the wife can chat to her family who are in indian and canada
plus, i've not been at work for a week so i've had more than enough free time to do stuff
but yes, i noticed a few peole had had problems before over the past few days and, seeing as no one had put any new things up, and i couldn't find the original posts, one i think was posted by paul nyrs, i thought there might be a new problem and that lots of peole may have been experiencing it
yes i hsould have posted it i the p&p section, but i dind't
it's on in the background and the computer is always on so whenever i'm about i can chat to my brother who's in australia
or the wife can chat to her family who are in indian and canada
plus, i've not been at work for a week so i've had more than enough free time to do stuff
but yes, i noticed a few peole had had problems before over the past few days and, seeing as no one had put any new things up, and i couldn't find the original posts, one i think was posted by paul nyrs, i thought there might be a new problem and that lots of peole may have been experiencing it
yes i hsould have posted it i the p&p section, but i dind't
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