Quote Originally Posted by Nit View Post
It's called DDOS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deni...ributed_attack

Cloudflare might help with attacks like this one.
Heheh Tahnks.

Actually, after checking the server's logfiles carefully, we can assume that the downtime has been caused by an DDOS-attack.
I knew that term as well, but when I first wrote my annoucement, I was very careful with naming things, because I had to check the logs first to make sure what had happened. On top of that, I didn't want to use the term "attack" to quickly, since I merely started investigating the logfiles.
You know, after Lea's horrible expierences in the past few years with hackers, data loss and relaunches, I didn't want to worry people too much, before I really knew what was going on.
Now it's safe to say that all these problems were caused by a DDOS-attack. Of course, a service like cloudflare could help preventing such things, but on the other hand I don't want to get another additional service provider involved or handling my/our data... if you know what I mean. I'm a bit careful about privacy policies and such. But we'll see.
By now, I've changed some settings and restrictions so that the attacks have stopped. But then again there's no such thing as a 100% security when you're browsing the internet so of course this can happen again.

So yeah... that's how things are right now but the way I see it, Lea is running fine again