Hi Everyone Bigstack here with a quick server update. Last night a hard drive had failed in our raid and we went offline while that drive was replaced and were running at 100% again. Additionally over the past month we have had directed SYN flood attacks to this site. Those 5-10 minute windows where the site is very slow or is down is the cause of this. When this happens your lovable admin by the name of Bigstack ( I love cookies feel free to send) has alarms that go off on his phone and wake him up at 3 am (this is always a blast!) and I have to manually start blocking the attacking IPs. I have recently half automated this and the server is able to take care of itself for the smaller attacks. But no worries I am coming up with alternatives for when these attacks are directed at us.
On another note keep a look out for some tasty stats and figures from our site from the last month and also a new podcast episode!
BigStack!
On another note keep a look out for some tasty stats and figures from our site from the last month and also a new podcast episode!
BigStack!