Website Issues - DDoS Attack

[Alex]

Santa Claus has brought us a lump of coal in the shape of a sustained DDoS attack by bots over the weekend, the website has been slower than usual, sometimes unusable. This seems to have continued into today, so apologies if your experience has been impacted. We are working on it.

[endo]

suckers

[Karol]

Christmas and the new year are traditionally the time of elevated activity from those f*** .
I can’t even remember when was the last time that nothing happened around this time

[Daniel San]

[DrPat]

I wonder what would motivate someone to choose Iron Heart as the target of a DoS attack. Political activism and business competition don’t make much sense.

Good luck solving this!

[Alex]

@DrPat Thats pretty much what I always say, too

[seawolf]

I was wondering why I was having so much trouble lately. I thought it was just my shitty internet connection. Hope you’re not too negatively impacted by this!

[Giles]

@seawolf said in Website Issues - DDoS Attack:

Hope you’re not too negatively impacted by this!

I cant see how we wont. Customers get pissed off and give up, the back end which is what we use to process orders is extremely slow, so that means it takes longer to process and ship orders....

[yannis]

There is definitely an issue with the purchasing site. The forum works fine but when I go to purchase something I cannot even login. Is just sitting there. Hope you guys are able to resolve it quickly.

[Giles]

We run the forum on a different platform. That is deliberate, so we dont lose everything at the same time.....

[jtaylor69]

@yannis are you okay to try again? We've put in place some changes to mitigate the issues we've been seeing and so you should be able to checkout once again. Thanks!

[Danimal506]

Website seems to be working smooth right now. Hopefully it’s fixed?

[mclaincausey]

Of all the targets for something like that, a family business that does right by its customers. So sorry for this undeserved attack.

[yannis]

I can get in now. Looks like it's fixed