Digital Point forums is again down, this time a bit serious. Kind of DDOS attack by a number of spammers. Now its showing Database error for the last 20hrs.

This kind of database errors was also seen couple of month ago. that was on October,2008 and many before October,2008.

But this time i got many info from other forums that Digital Point Forums seems to be under severe attack by a person with username, “cuhamelsamast“. As such, it has resulted in poor responsiveness of the server and often dropping connections, rendering the site with Page Load Error. Apparently, this is similar to a Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.its was under DDOS attack by many spammers.

As seen from the screen-shot, one specific user has managed to take out the servers’ resources by targetting a particular Forum column - Introductions. It has remarkably slowed down the server’s response to other users, thereby taking up the bandwidth.

This is probably one of the rare occasions that Digital Points is facing such attacks, although in many previous occasions, Digital Point Forums has been the focal point and jealousy of several other hackers.

People have donated a large amount of money for the servers but these problems still persist. Come On Shawn please look into the matter and upgrade the server. We The Users Of Your Forum Request You.

You can see the discussion about DP recent downtime on SitePoint forum here.

Whats do you think about this downtime, share with us.

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