Digital Point Forums Down Once Again, DDOS Attack on November 23, 2008
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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13 Comments on “Digital Point Forums Down Once Again, DDOS Attack on November 23, 2008”
Again? This stuff is happening to often with Digital Pojnt.
Much the interesting has found here
Thank for information.
Between February 9th and February 10th, 2009, Digitalpoint has been down for at least 12 hours. I was looking for information when I came across this article. So if anybody has information as to what the current problem is, please post it.
Well its not loading here in asia yet. i think servers are down again. All members of DP, report here the status from ur country.
Regards
Tanbir (DP: SolidState)
US here, down for me too.
same problem Here!! DP not working for me also in INDIA
Digital Point hasn’t been working for me either, its been down for alteast 24 hours I think. I am in the USA
Well, it’s been down for me for at least more than 12 hours! I thought it was just me, i’m glad i found this.
I’m in Canada.
I think this time some thing big problem happened. I hope our member database will be safe. if my account got deleted i will be madddd.
-Tanbir
FINALLY!!! ITS WORKS GREAT NOW!!! ALL THINGS ARE FINE AT DP..
Thank god! My account is also SAFE!!! haha
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