I haven't checked this thread lately, and came over to congratulate all of the MISCers placing in the ASSHAT voting. (it's very impressive, BTW. The nominations most likely came from people easily rustled, but still...)
But then I see posts about DDOS attacks? AGAIN?!?
I'm not an IT guy, but someone needs something like Cloudflare, LOL.
Someone already tagged
Haus
so lemme just say...get your ass in here, motherfucker! If you're knowledgeable on this shit, give us some learnin's!
One thing about how people react every time they get DDoS'ed: As far as I know, if you're setup like a retard, then you will get attacked, and you will be attacked OFTEN. It isn't (necessarily) a specific bad actor who has it out for you. Crying
"OMG, it's happened again, I bet it's X over at Y!" just means you probably aren't doing what you need to do to address it, otherwise you'd have found a preventative solution by now, and stopped the attacks (or more likely, simply mitigated them, I guess?).
When I see them getting attacked MULTIPLE TIMES, I have to start asking why they're so VULNERABLE. It's like parking your new car outside and leaving the windows down 24/7. And then when it inevitably rains, accusing your neighbor of sending the storm to ruin the upholstery. No, motherfucker, stop being a retard and secure your shit. Accusing someone else for your stupidity is just hilarious.
What is up with their Host? Is their Host so bad/cheap that they can't stop anything? Do they even try? Has that forum's Admin even talked to anyone about what they need to do to stop it? And if the site was down very long at all, then that's on Admin, IMHO. First for using a Host that isn't proactive (do they not know a DDoS is happening? Are they waiting for a fucking invitation?) or is seemingly incapable of helping, then for not changing their Host, or heaven forbid, trying to do everything themselves.
Even if it *WAS* some asshole intentionally directing attacks at the forum, it really WOULDN'T MATTER, if things were setup 'correctly', and people were practicing their due diligence (you know, the stuff you are supposed to do so your site isn't compromised). Because in that case, even an intentional DDOS would be handled the same way as a generic DDOS is, and most/all users would never even be aware of them, because they'd be addressed.
This is just part of why we reacted like we did when we were first accused. It's so idiotic that I don't even have words (and normally I legit have way too many words, LOL.)
I would seriously tag
Alkorin
if I thought he even checked the forums these days, just on the offchance he could offer some legit advice. Maybe
Lightning Lord Rule
if he was feeling beneficent this morning. Otherwise, when the forum is up, someone needs to ask whoever is 'running' that site WTF is going on.