Drexel College, we got hit while having PGSIST there and we traced back and ran a DDoS back at them to stop them. I can see if I can contact those that go there and see if they're willing to attack again.

attacking back is not a good idea because:

I don't see flooding the network with another DDoS attack as appropriate. Since the bandwidth to the offender is NOT dedicated, other innocent folks will suffer as well, because their network performance is affected. Two wrongs don't make a right. Inflicting collateral damage is not acceptable.

Ripping the fingernails out of a hackers typing fingers may sound justified, but it is not. Sadly, it is the goodguys who have to do things the hard way.

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Maybe a wiki article can address this?

Arenlor,
i sympathise with your feelings to get even,
but;

Attacking the bad guys using their own tactics just gets you into the realm they want you in.
do not engage in illegal activity, or any other activity that is vengeful.
it leads to more trouble for all.

for complaints about the bad guys there are resources available at the internet crime complaint commission.
http://www.ic3.gov/

let the EXPERTS deal with the criminals.

they have the power to ask for the legal use of wiretapping and other means to prosecute the perpetrators of internet crimes.

General Failure?

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Minor blips, I'm working...

What is the status of getting the site back to pre-attack performance levels? We are still not there. Rarely do the best load times match pre-attack performance levels. Most of the time, load times are just adequate at best, poor at other times. Images still frequently do not load completely.

Current performance detracts from the virtues of the site, and creates an unwelcomed frustration level when assisting posters seeking help.

97ppm Engine
ALL(8.787s) phpbb(8.642s) SQL(8.536s) FUNC(0.003s) MARKER(0.068s) GT(0.071s) PT(0s)

98ppm Engine
ALL(23.971s) phpbb(23.434s) SQL(23.32s) FUNC(0.004s) MARKER(0.076s) GT(0.397s) PT(0s)

101ppm Engine
ALL(15.588s) phpbb(15.052s) SQL(14.94s) FUNC(0.004s) MARKER(0.274s) GT(0.253s) PT(0s)

Related thread: site is slowing down

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It is frustratingly slow at times though I find that, on average, it's fairly quick. Once in a while it just goes out to lunch for 30 seconds to a minute.

Also I find that on first access, the wiki is very slow, but on successive accesses, it's reasonably speedy ... though not as lightning fast as it used to be.

I'm planning an outage in the next week in order to do some performance measures.

I see there's a "Tiny possibility" of a server move this evening - is that (hopefully) to address the continuing problem of frequent slow load times? We are still not back to pre-attack performance levels and images still frequently do not load completely.

Another oddity is with post previews - I get a page not found error that appears in the Topic Review Section of the preview page. A refresh clears it, but it is a distraction.

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Yes that was the plan, but in fact it won't happen tonight. Looking forward to making it happen hopefully this week.

Great. Thanks.

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