Vash
OHM Administrator
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2008
- Messages
- 189
- Reaction score
- 2
- Points
- 0
- Location
- In a cave, of course.
- Website
- www.orbithangar.com
What's going on:
Some of you may have noticed lately that the Orbit Hangar Mods server has been going offline, is very slow, or just simply seems entirely unresponsive. After some extensive digging through log files, I've discovered that the site is under attack, and actually has been for quite some time. It's just that whoever's doing the attacking got a bit smarter in their tactics recently.
Unfortunately, the solution isn't as simple as banning one or two people as the attacks appear to be coming from a wide range of IP addresses. I have made a few changes on the server to slow down these attacks until I can (hopefully) come up with a better solution.
Changes that may affect the regular user:
For now, everyone is limited to making at most 3 simultaneous requests to the server. This essentially means that you can not download more than 2 files at once and still be able to browse the site while downloading. If you have 3 downloads going from the site simultaneously and try to access a page on the site, you will most likely receive a "Page can not be displayed" error.
As I said, hopefully this will only be short term and I can once again increase the number of simultaneous connections in the near future.
Other things to watch out for:
Back towards the beginning of the month, I noticed a very large number of requests for invalid pages on the site. Most of these were attempts to download files in a directory which did not exist. The nature of the requests appeared as if they were coming from a script which was trying to download random (possibly all) files on the site.
If you know of any scripts out there or anyone who is trying to use an automated program to download files from my site, please let me know! Programs such as this (especially when they are improperly written and cause masses of errors) are considered attacks on the server.
Thanks for your patience in this matter.
Some of you may have noticed lately that the Orbit Hangar Mods server has been going offline, is very slow, or just simply seems entirely unresponsive. After some extensive digging through log files, I've discovered that the site is under attack, and actually has been for quite some time. It's just that whoever's doing the attacking got a bit smarter in their tactics recently.
Unfortunately, the solution isn't as simple as banning one or two people as the attacks appear to be coming from a wide range of IP addresses. I have made a few changes on the server to slow down these attacks until I can (hopefully) come up with a better solution.
Changes that may affect the regular user:
For now, everyone is limited to making at most 3 simultaneous requests to the server. This essentially means that you can not download more than 2 files at once and still be able to browse the site while downloading. If you have 3 downloads going from the site simultaneously and try to access a page on the site, you will most likely receive a "Page can not be displayed" error.
As I said, hopefully this will only be short term and I can once again increase the number of simultaneous connections in the near future.
Other things to watch out for:
Back towards the beginning of the month, I noticed a very large number of requests for invalid pages on the site. Most of these were attempts to download files in a directory which did not exist. The nature of the requests appeared as if they were coming from a script which was trying to download random (possibly all) files on the site.
If you know of any scripts out there or anyone who is trying to use an automated program to download files from my site, please let me know! Programs such as this (especially when they are improperly written and cause masses of errors) are considered attacks on the server.
Thanks for your patience in this matter.