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Any really good coders around? who can help the weasyl crew? by Happysorry
http://blog.weasyl.com/post/73733281021/over-the-last-24-hours-weasyl-has-been-subject-to
just recently saw this x wx ahnn! i hope they have enough hands to help them out to stop the attack.
Any really good coders around? who can help the weasyl crew?
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oh wonderufl i never heard of it so when i saw it i'm like 'holy crap thats awful' XD i'm glad its soemthign easy to take care of .//w.
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The thing that makes everything suspicious is that the DDoS has happened right slap bang in the middle of everyone leaving FA en masse. Nothing confirmed and its just rumour mill, but its an interesting thought.
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So that's what those 502 errors were about?
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yup yup cause of hacking attempts to have a denail of service to weasyl x wx
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ah, i couldn't access this site via Google chrome
I guess this is why-
skjdiwa yeah it should be fixed soon it seems they are doing their best to get it back to working normally
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%20benanderson can correct me if this is the wrong analogy, but a DDoS attack is kind of like if you faxed a bunch of completely black pages to an office in an attempt to make them run out of ink for the fax machine so they can't use it. Same idea here, someone is artificially sending a bunch of requests to Weasyl all at once in an effort to overload it so much it no longer loads, therefore people can't use it.
The reason why it is a rather interesting coincidence in particular, is because DDoS attacks are infamous for being simple and easy enough for people to execute that it's often considered obvious that a competitor of the attacked website was responsible for the attack.
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kljosiaw okay i understand now thank you so much .//w. fff man frowny face its.. nuts how soemone would attack like weasyl didn't do anything, but thank you for clearing that up for me X//d
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Well, because the main intention of a DDoS is to make the website unavailable to others, it's often used as a weapon between two competing websites, thus it's generally regarded that when a DDoS attack happens the culprits are rather obvious.
I'm not saying someone from FA did it, but...well...it doesn't look good.
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That's pretty metal.
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yeaahhhhh
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benanderson
DDoS attacks aren't complicated things. A few tweaks and everything will be right as rain.