The site is under DDOS attack for the last 2 days. Hence it timing out on the odd occasion. Mick has said in his thread 'DDOS on the forum' he's now getting the police involved so hopefully it'll return to normal soon enough
[video=youtube;JC8nyBr9_-8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8nyBr9_-8&feature=related[/video] Business as usual chums.
I'm not scaremongering , just pointing out why the site times out occasionally over the past few days and basically to save syd and mick from any pms from our board about it
Distributed denial of service = DDOS Basically.. it's when multiple different computers (often linked via botnet) try and connect to a site and end up clogging up the connection, ending up with the site closing down. Have you all noticed it goes really slow when lots of people are online? Picture that with 10 times as many people, it just doesn't open.
It was a bit iffy earlier on tonight.It was very slow for a spell.I couldn't connect at one stage.Its happened a few times recently.