Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2014 12:13:31 GMT
As many of you will be aware, this morning saw a lengthy outage of the forum. The reason (which may re-occur) is that the proboards servers that redirect our custom domain p2pindependentforum.com onto the proboards host server came under a DDOS attack.
I recommend bookmarking our alternative url www.p2pforum.boards.net for emergency use
This is the explanation posted a short time ago by proboards:
At least we'll be better prepared next time !
mrclondon
I recommend bookmarking our alternative url www.p2pforum.boards.net for emergency use
This is the explanation posted a short time ago by proboards:
Hello,
This night/morning (3:30am here) we've experienced multiple DDoS attacks on our servers targeting custom domain forums. This has caused custom domains to be inaccessible for multiple brief periods of time. During this time, however, your standard ProBoards forum URLs have continued to work.
For the time being, we encourage you to use your non-custom domain URL and make your forum users aware of it as a "backup" URL.
Also, in the interest of keeping your forum working, when users login to your forum they will be directed to your regular (non-custom domain) URLs. This is only temporary to ensure that your visitors can use your forum and be logged in if custom domains go down due to another attack. Once we are confident that these issues have subsided, we will switch logins back to your custom domain URL.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
Patrick Clinger
President and CEO
ProBoards
This night/morning (3:30am here) we've experienced multiple DDoS attacks on our servers targeting custom domain forums. This has caused custom domains to be inaccessible for multiple brief periods of time. During this time, however, your standard ProBoards forum URLs have continued to work.
For the time being, we encourage you to use your non-custom domain URL and make your forum users aware of it as a "backup" URL.
Also, in the interest of keeping your forum working, when users login to your forum they will be directed to your regular (non-custom domain) URLs. This is only temporary to ensure that your visitors can use your forum and be logged in if custom domains go down due to another attack. Once we are confident that these issues have subsided, we will switch logins back to your custom domain URL.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
Patrick Clinger
President and CEO
ProBoards
At least we'll be better prepared next time !
mrclondon
