Site Update » Site Downtime · 5:14am Apr 17th, 2015
That was quite an extended period of downtime huh? Today we were DDOS attacked with a significantly large bot net (enough to eclipse our connection about 5 times over). The attack itself was not for an extended period of time exactly, but due to bad timing we weren't able to sort out the issues it brought about because of various factors involving availability of people and how it was handled at a level out of our control.
Nonetheless, we took this as an opportunity to work the site into using Cloudflare, which many of you will be familiar with as it gets use all over the web. This lets us more easily mitigate such attacks, and the silver lining of it all is that it reduces our bandwidth usage and should result in quicker load times for images and such from anywhere in the world. Handy!
Anyway, I apologise for the extended delay, but hopefully after all this there are some positives to take away.
One problem that will remain for a couple of days (at most) is some people's DNS will not be updated for the Cloudflare integration. Sadly we just have to be patient there, most of you should be fine already.
ps. Somebody buy Xaquseg a beer for me.
edit: I'm aware of some issues with posting some content. I know what's causing this, currently working out how to fix it.
Knighty be like -
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Good work, Knighty.
Yes. Just imagine what could have happened if you, y'know, already had DDOS protection or something?
Perhaps you could update the Twitter feed with the information on dns cache clearing?
Delicious delicious Cloudflare
Quite a scare that was!
Thanks to you and the others for working hard in getting it up and running again. And hopefully this Cloudflare program makes it easier to deal with this sort of thing, should it pop up again.
I am glad to see it back up, but was sad that such an attack even happened. I hope the attacker has some consequences for his actions.
Man, the chucklefucks who did this are more degenerate than all the worst dredge yiu can find here
Eh, it gave me time to do some other things. Great to see it back up though ^^
This happened.
This was a great day. Like...wow.
Thanks to everyone involved for the hard work getting this place up and running again.
I needed my fix.
For anyone who is too impatient to wait (like I was), you can always switch over to using Google's DNS.
Incidentally, did you report the incident to the police?
I was wondering what brought the Fimficopocalypse about... Oh well, yay for silver lining. And my gratitude, as always.
I'm pretty sure it was TgTfProductions trying to get revenge!
Woo! My personal escape from reality has been restored!
Hey, you guys got nothing to be sorry for. At least some good came out of this, what with Cloudflare getting implemented into the site and all. Been following the Twitter feed of the limey motherbuckers who did this all day, and wowwwwww, are they bad. Like, even the scum you scrape off of the bottom of the barrel would be embarrassed to be around these guys. Anyways, great work to the whole Fimfic team on getting the site back up, and give yourselves all a well-deserved pat-on-the-back (and a drink, while you're at it
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We knew you could do it Knighty! Great work!
I have one thing to say about me and FimFiction.
Reunited and it feels so good!
No need to apologize as you and the other staff members did a fantastic job of fixing the problem.
Glad it's back up!
2989809 To read your advice you need to have been already using the new DNS address(es). I just thought I'd point that out. =P
is the only one I remember. So there's that.)
(also the pony smilies aren't working for me. Unless this works.
And it does, but I can't see the available ones and
2989812 Who are they and what's the story behind their need for revenge?
I love these people saying FimFiction got hacked - I don't really think a DDoS botnet attack run by scriptkiddies counts as hacking. That's like saying 'I find snippets of code on the internet others wrote and paste it together into a Frankenstein's monster of crap - I must be a programmer.' Doesn't work that way.
Knighty, Xaq: Thank you for your hard work. Glad everything's groovy.
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Gods dammit, one day and people actually CELEBRATE a sizeable site full of people's hard work getting taken down?! What the hell!?!
Awesome work, Knighty. Kudos to you and the staff for saving the site and its content. :)
2989809 I second this. Def. report it to the police!
For Xaquseg:
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2989833 He was a faggot who lied about being sick and dying from cancer, eliciting pity followers from others
and threatened to DDoS the site upon being discovered. It never happened...
I really hope that money didn't get paid to the degenerates who perpetrated this to get the site back. That only enables them to continue to do what they do.
I really hope they find themselves on the wrong side of an FBI raid someday.
If he lived here in Maine, I would buy him a case of whatever beer he wanted!
This is also a good opportunity for everyone to make sure that they
have a backup/offline copy of all of their stories and critical data
thank the gods do you have any idea how long my night off would of been with out this site I work 3rd shift in a town that rolls up its side walks at night that's how long it would be.
Also thanks for the fast work much loves/hugs
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Amen!!
anti brony hacker?
2989829 I can't see the smileys either when I click on the list D:
This was awful. I had to work at work today. All I had for comfort was my pony figure on my desk, pony wallpaper, and 8 perpetually open tabs of pony words.
Anybody else besides me start experiencing computer troubles after the site was taken down?
Cheers to you guys for working on the problem for an extended period of time.
My sweetheart and I suffered some serious pony deprivation during the downtime. I don't really get why someone would try and attack us. I mean... it's not like we're known for our depraved porn.
But anywho~ YES! MY ADDICTION CAN BE FED ONCE MORE!!!!!!!!
I hope my hysterical punctuating illustrates how relieved I am.
I knew the X-Lord would have come through for us. Praise Xaquseg! (Oh, and Knighty did good too).
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Glad to see the site back up.
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Oh, I've always had backup copies on Google Drive. I'm starting to put public backups of my fanfiction over at An Archive Of Our Own, now, though I haven't gotten too far yet.
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Had a gut feeling it was some kind of attack.
May I ask, and anyone can answer...
Is this why my computer still will not connect to fimfic? My mobile works fine but my browser will not load it.
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It was all over the Facebook page
2989865 ...And you managed to say exactly what I was trying to say. Except you actually made sense.
I hope Cloudfare actually works. Many sites that use it have problems (as in not fucking working) because of it.
This is the second the second time I've witness the site being hacked since I joined. Though this one seems a little suspicious, first we got news of people selling fanfictions for money and then the next day afterwards the site went down.
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2989850 That's what the Fimfiction archive is for.