Finally Back!

[Squirrel61]

It's good to see gp32x.de is back online! But what was the cause of more than a week of disappearance and is there a way we (users) can help to prevent this happening again?

 

[---_Won_---]

Yes there is. Don't all order your pandoras at once.

Edit: Good to see the forums back

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

It's good to see gp32x.de is back online! But what was the cause of more than a week of disappearance and is there a way we (users) can help to prevent this happening again?

The site fell fowl of a Distributed Denial of service attack (DDOS), and there's nothing we could have done about it .

I'm glad it's back up though.

P.S. Moved to off topic.

 

[b._.o._.b]

Nice!
Was having problems reaching the forum weeks before the break down. Hopefully it stays as fast as it is now.

 

[Squirrel61]

Thanks, sorry to post in the wrong section.

It's really sick that people DDOS a site like this. I mean, DDOS'ing is always sick but what do they gain by DDOS'ing a site that is for a small public only. Let's be honest, how many GPH users are around worldwide when compared to the DS or PSP? How many visitors does this site have when compared to a random DS or PSP site?

 

[craigix]

It does make me wonder who would stand to gain from it. Did they make any contact with the host, any demands?

 

[Alex.]

Good to be back. Cheers Hando & co.

 

[atomicthumbs]

Conspiracy theory time! GPH did it!

 

[PoisonedV]

Conspiracy theory time! GPH did it!

GPH and quasist approached chad78 with an offer, he gets a free macbook if he takes down Gp32X, so, using his totally radical techno-HAXXER skills, he immediately took down Gp32x, without even using a botnet.

all praise be to chad.

 

[sam fisher]

It's good to see gp32x.de is back online! But what was the cause of more than a week of disappearance and is there a way we (users) can help to prevent this happening again?

The site fell fowl of a Distributed Denial of service attack (DDOS), and there's nothing we could have done about it .

I'm glad it's back up though.

P.S. Moved to off topic.

Forgive my naivety but isn't a week (or approximately that) and extremely long time for a DDoS to continue?

Conspiracy theory time! GPH did it!

I expect they are too busy with the Wiz preparations to pay any attention to the Pandora pre-order launch?

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Forgive my naivety but isn't a week (or approximately that) and extremely long time for a DDoS to continue?

Don't shoot the messenger, I just reported back the info I was given :blink:

 

[sam fisher]

Forgive my naivety but isn't a week (or approximately that) and extremely long time for a DDoS to continue?

Don't shoot the messenger, I just reported back the info I was given :blink:

Sorry, I am more clueless than you. I just read a post on the now official Pandora forums that this seemed rather long for a DDoS. My theory is that there was no DDoS but just a rather large amount of traffic .

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Forgive my naivety but isn't a week (or approximately that) and extremely long time for a DDoS to continue?

Don't shoot the messenger, I just reported back the info I was given :blink:

Sorry, I am more clueless than you. I just read a post on the now official Pandora forums that this seemed rather long for a DDoS. My theory is that there was no DDoS but just a rather large amount of traffic .

I actually wonder if it started as a DDoS attack and then his ISP blocked a bunch of subnets (Which is what we were told) and they couldn't sort it all out. We could speculate about this all night but who cares as a solution was found, the forum's back up and were all happy bunnies

 

[sam fisher]

I am sort of hoping Hando takes Craig up on his offer or at least finds a better host. The OpenPandora page loads are much more snappy than GP32x has been for over a year :S. With a greater user base comes a greater demand for server side processing and it seems GP32x may be in need of a little more power under the bonnet in terms of that respect.

 

[polkunus]

war?

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

I thought ED offered it? Regardless, this place needs a facelift. It will also pay off in the long run as Hando will spend less time fixing this place when it crashes.

 

[quasist]

Conspiracy theory time! GPH did it!

GPH and quasist approached chad78 with an offer, he gets a free macbook if he takes down Gp32X, so, using his totally radical techno-HAXXER skills, he immediately took down Gp32x, without even using a botnet.

all praise be to chad.

It could be craigix itself. To cover his actions of stealing credit cards accounts of preorderers.

 

[Esn]

Could the Pandora team add the link to this forum back to their website? It still says that the forum is crashed.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

itself

Funniest part of the post

 

[Kyo]

Crazy things happening