LegendBegins

Myriad Reality

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Not mine. But okay.

@DarkwolfX37

But you went to an unusual school, didn't you?

Mahz's Dev Journal

@LegendBegins About how long are each of these downtimes?

Hours? A full day? Multiple days?

@Mahz

Each was multiple hours, but the minor one was only about one.

The downtimes I've seen were for roughly an hour (possibly less) as I remember. It was less that the site was completely down as it was having extreme connection issues on the server end; some portions loaded after 5 minutes, or they "loaded" (with nothing appearing on the screen) for a few minutes and showed up with an application error.

@ArenaSnow

They were longer than an hour, but what you describe is part of why I believe it to be an attack. It seemed like the server was overloaded with requests, so few got through.

Myriad Reality

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-Anna- Can you do it in its current containment?

@Mammalia

Isis: No; it needs a new containment.

Mahz's Dev Journal

I can't actually start any code updates until I get home from work, but I'll start a general checklist of things I need to do in the short-term.

Checklist:

- Update current contest in the sidebar.
- Update latest newletter in the sidebar.
- Retro-reward trophies to all contest winners.
- Add contest subforums to list of forums excluded from the anti-necro system (Reported here)
- [Bug] Fix the Guild for people with only numbers in their username (Reported here)
- Investigate any causes of downtime since I've been gone. I need to figure out the main causes of downtime and figure out any major bugs that caused them.

Can anyone illuminate some of the main issues you've had during my leave? Those are the kinds of things I want to tackle.

I'm looking forward to catching up with this thread.

@Mahz

It's wonderful to have you back. Personally, I've been keeping up with the data management and vulnerability of the Guild. Since you left, we've had two major down spikes, which appeared to be DDoS attacks, and one minor one, which could range from an attack to a server error. I did some research into the matter and came to the conclusion that it was either an attack or a major server error, but figured it was more likely the former. I spoke with those in the IRC of my findings, and kept them updated whenever downtime occurred, so they could let those who came to find out the issue, but also told them that there would be no way to be sure until you returned.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Draconilian has it all wrong,@TheMaster99. Mahz is running a Coca Cola cartel, not a Drug cartel. Everyone knows there's more money than is healthy in coca cola, while drugs is simply dangerous to play with. You don't normally get shot over disagreements in cola distribution.

@Ellri

Maybe you don't.

Myriad Reality

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-Anna- *follows*

@Balance

Tempo: This is where game progress and monitoring must be done.

Mahz's Dev Journal

The way Mahz works with long periods of time completely MIA and long periods of time working here makes me think he does something like work in a Gulf Coast oil rig for part of the year and do fuck all at home the rest.

or he's running with a huge drug gang and uses his mexican coke money to fund the website, spending large portions of the year covering his tracks.

@Draconilian

Mexican Coke is the best Coke, because they use real cane sugar to make it.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@LegendBegins What crashing issues?

@Caits Works fine for me, so it's probably something on your end. No idea what it could be, though. Do you know when it started happening?

@TheMaster99

guild was down earlier today,@TheMaster99. around 5-7 in the morning CET.

@Ellri

^This. I assumed it was an attack again, but it didn't behave in the same way. Everyone was instantly cut off, and then it slowly restored. First the home page, then the topic pages, then the topics themselves, then posting was restored. It's possible it was a stronger botnet that worked inversely to the last. The first attack began slow, as each host accessed and flooded the site, but retracted immediately when it was shut down. This one began instantly, but began teetering off very slowly. It's always possible that these are all server issues, but it wouldn't make as much sense, considering they behave the way they do.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Could someone with contact with Mahz possibly make him aware of the crashing issues the Guild has been experiencing, and ask him to confirm the causes?

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Hank Yeah, I think I'm the only one that has been in contact with him at all, for the most part. Besides you doing so now, of course.

Just a heads up to you guys, if anything else in the future happens while Mahz is away, emailing him won't work; I told him about what you guys suspected was a DDoS and that was the first he'd heard of it so presumably he either hasn't been checking his email at all, or does so infrequently. He said he pretty much depends on me for guild news at the moment, so I guess it's safe to say that no other way of contacting him will work at this point. So I guess just bring up anything important that happens here, and I'll make sure he knows about it?

@TheMaster99

Will do.