Brady'sButtBoy
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Many times it's an attempt just to get the server, any server, to help with a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. If they're working on a DDOS, the more servers they have, the better. It takes quite a few servers to mount an attack big enough to shut down a big boy like Microsoft or Yahoo.Brady'sButtBoy said:I still can't help but wonder why people do such things as attack an NFL fan website. What is wrong with these people? Are they still angry that mommy forgot to tuck them in ONE TIME when they were children?? It really baffles me....
PATSNUTme said:And I was posting brilliant threads all day. wondering why I couldn't read them or no one replied.
pats1 said:Huh? I couldn't even access the forum. Got an error message.
I second both parts. Ian, you're the best.Gumby said:Ian,
Firstoff: A MEGA HUGE THANKS for all you do to keep this site up and running. Much like Hurricane season in N.O.; an event like this gives you a chance to appreciate exactly what you have with the best Football Fan site on the planet.
:eat3:
Second: My personal apologies if I generated an automatic email to the admin every single time I fervently tried to login yesterday. Your box probably has about 10,000 emails just from all of us refreshing every 60 seconds.
T-ShirtDynasty said:Oh
My
Gawd.
This means the infamous cheerleader thread is no more.
Oh the humanity.
oh stop, you old fart.....NEM said:Actually, it made for a very rough day. I actually had to go over to PatriotsPlanet and try to get banned there, too. I didn't.
pats1 said:No problem, Ian!
(I had fun poking sticks at IndyStar yesterday )
Ian said:The server we were on came under a Denial of Service Attack over the weekend, shutting down the NFLFans.com server that we share which caused a loss of our database. As you can see the posts appear underneath, however they're unreadable as we've been unable to restore them.
Your member accounts all still exist to the best of my knowledge, so all functionality should be restored. I apologize for the inability to restore the posts, as of 1:54am ET on Sunday we haven't been able to bring them back as the last back-up of the databases were also corrupt.
Needless to say we're back up and running, but it's disappointing that the posts are gone despite our best efforts. Hopefully everyone understands as we've done all we can. I'm calling it a night, thanks for all the e-mails. My PM box is full, so if anyone wants to contact me go here if you need anything:
http://www.patsfans.com/contact/
Thanks again,
Ian
OHPATSNUTme said:And I was posting brilliant threads all day. wondering why I couldn't read them or no one replied.
BelichickFan said:Thanks for getting us back ASAP . . . 24 hours was a long time to go without patsfans.com but at least the Colts lost in the meantime