Smugmug down???

caseserve

In the middle of editing www.caseserve.com (caseserve.smugmug.com) it went away. I tried to load Andy's site www.moonriverphotography.com and it is also bye bye???

:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno

Andy

caseserve wrote:

In the middle of editing www.caseserve.com (caseserve.smugmug.com) it went away. I tried to load Andy's site www.moonriverphotography.com and it is also bye bye???

huhhuhhuhhuh

Standby please, John.

boyersmile

I noticed the same thing. I questioned whether it had something to do with the comment spam problems. Onethumb is fighting back by sending out huge amounts of garbage to the spammer. I'm guessing that this could cause some problems for smugmug's server??? Just my speculation though. It is fine by me if it means we are winning the war against the evil spammer.

Miles

Zanotti

Smugmug Down
Temporary Service Interruption</STRONG> We're having some temporary technical difficulties. We're working on them at the moment, and expect service to return shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're not happy about it, of course, but we are prepared for it and expect there to be no data loss or any long-term reduction in service. Thanks for your patience and understanding!


© 2005 smugmug, inc.</SPAN></STRONG>

caseserve

Onethumb -vs- the spammer
Round 1 went to the spammer for actually spamming all of us
Round 2 went to Onethumb for dumping on him :fish


Round 3 TBD

caseserve

02/23/2006-11:10am EST site down
caseserve.smugmug.com is down as well as moonriverphotography.com


WTF?

jamescalder

caseserve wrote:

caseserve.smugmug.com is down as well as moonriverphotography.com


WTF?

can't get to my site either - jamescalder.smugmug.com

Mike Lane

My site works as of 0814 pacific time.

jamescalder

Mike Lane wrote:

My site works as of 0814 pacific time.

fine here now too, also, as well...

Techman1

More Problems?
I'm not able to get to my site:

Events.FredDickinson.com

or by going directly through my Smugmug.com link.

Is this a regional thing as I'm not able to link to MikeLane's site above either currently.

Anybody else?

Fred

jamescalder

Techman1 wrote:

I'm not able to get to my site:

Events.FredDickinson.com

or by going directly through my Smugmug.com link.

Is this a regional thing as I'm not able to link to MikeLane's site above either currently.

Anybody else?

Fred

amd of course, now i refreshed, it's down again, but at least it's official now!
Temporary Service Interruption</STRONG> We're having some temporary technical difficulties. We're working on them at the moment, and expect service to return shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're not happy about it, of course, but we are prepared for it and expect there to be no data loss or any long-term reduction in service. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

BridgeCity

I'm down as well

bridgecitystudios.smugmug.com

tmanchester

Same here--right when I am trying to work with a customer via phone to view photos to identify individuals.

Just lucky, I guess.

tmanchester

pbase to the rescue! Glad I still have that account.

Shima

Need.... pictures...

...going....through....withdrawal...

Art Scott

This is what I get when I try to go to my site:
www.CONTEMPORARY-VISIONS.com




Temporary Service Interruption We're having some temporary technical difficulties. We're working on them at the moment, and expect service to return shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're not happy about it, of course, but we are prepared for it and expect there to be no data loss or any long-term reduction in service. Thanks for your patience and understanding!


© 2005 smugmug, inc.</SPAN></STRONG></STRONG>

Techman1

I'm glad the note is coming up now. That way if clients visit at least they know it is a problem with the site.

Hopefully it will be back up soon.

Take care all!

Fred

mbrady

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent battles with the comment spammers?

DanielB

my websites down as well as www.moonriverphotography.com

whats the dealio

jamescalder

mbrady wrote:

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent battles with the comment spammers?

hope the spammer doesn't have a big brother who came and knocked on Don's door...

:rambo

Shima

jamescalder wrote:

hope the spammer doesn't have a big brother who came and knocked on Don's door...

:rambo

Could it be from a spam overload? Maybe there was too much stress on the servers because of our recent spammer...

kygarden

11 minutes to go on my ebay auctions and no photos . Hope the glitches get worked out soon. This is why I left Pbase

bham

One of my smugmug sites is running while the other is down. Guess it isn't system wide.

onethumb

kygarden wrote:

11 minutes to go on my ebay auctions and no photos . Hope the glitches get worked out soon. This is why I left Pbase

Wish these were glitches - but they're not.

smugmug was/is the target of a large-scale Denial-of-Service attack.

I currently have it under control, but I have my doubts as to whether that will last too long.

Andrew and I are going to make some emergency network upgrades during the day today which should help. Unfortunately, these sorts of things are nearly impossible to combat - our upgrades will only help us get a little more insight into what's going on, but won't significantly help our ability to stop them.

The reason stopping them is so difficult, by the way, is the way DoS attacks occur these days. Rather than a single machine attacking us, it's usually thousands and thousands of them spread across the globe. Who has thousands of machine, you may ask? It turns out that people have made a game and a business out of taking over Windows boxes with security holes and then utilizing them to take out websites like ours.

We'll do our best, and we appreciate your patience.

Don

ziggy53

WooHoo!

They're back online in Illinois!

Thanks Don!

ziggy53

DanielB

back up in Kansas,

thanks Don

caseserve

caseserve wrote:

Round 1 went to the spammer for actually spamming all of us
Round 2 went to Onethumb for dumping on him :fish


Round 3 TBD

Round 3 goes to the pissed off spammer!

onethumb

caseserve wrote:

Round 3 goes to the pissed off spammer!

I don't *think* so, but it's impossible to be sure.

The spammer is still trying to spam right this second (and not succeeding), so I don't think he even knows that he's not able to post. Likely he just hit "GO" on his script and walked away.

I think this is something else entirely. It's possible we're the topic of discussion on some hax0r message forum which is where both spammers got us from as well as the DoS guy.

We'll see, though.

Don

jamescalder

onethumb wrote:

I don't *think* so, but it's impossible to be sure.

The spammer is still trying to spam right this second (and not succeeding), so I don't think he even knows that he's not able to post. Likely he just hit "GO" on his script and walked away.

I think this is something else entirely. It's possible we're the topic of discussion on some hax0r message forum which is where both spammers got us from as well as the DoS guy.

We'll see, though.

Don

my local newspaper had a fascinating article about one such hacker in their sunday magazine this past weekend - he's one of the folks who makes his living off creating and using the "botnets" responsible for such Denial of Service attacks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401342.html

vebberts

Most everything on my site is up, except there's a bevy of smugmug green text.

Art Scott

Seems To Be Back Up
12:05 PM CST and I can get back into my site...yeaaaaa!!!!

hope it isn't just temporary.