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FBTK down?
#1
Does anyone know what going on with FBTK, it seems the entire site is down.
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#2
It looks like a bill has been neglected, or bandwidth has been exceeded.

Argh! That means Fileanchor is down!(no avatar or siggy :( ) I bet that was the cause, Sumojo said they were looking like a good million hits were due this month, which is more than ever before.
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#3
There's a conflict between the host and I right now. We are resolving things and the account should be back up soon.

It was suspended from what sounds like a DDOS attack. I'll post more when I know.
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#4
Well, I've been talking to the host since I woke up today and trying to get this straightened out, but I haven't been having much luck. They say they're waiting for this traffic to die down for a bit, but I was told that it would be half hour from then and it's been an hour since then now.

Here's the beautiful email I woke up to today
Quote:sumojo was suspended on gator19 due to load issues caused by a burst of traffic to your image directory on fileanchor.fbtk.net.

If this traffic is not expected to continue, let us know, and we'll put the site back online later today.

Thanks for choosing HostGator!

-Server Stability Team

The odd thing about this is that the only thing in the images folder are the little report icons and such we use for FileAnchor. I found this to be odd and have tried mentioning that to little success.

I've been talking on and off with support all day. I completed their formal email to their ticketing system so they would unsuspend me. After doing that I received this email.

Quote: Hello,

We shall attempt to lift the suspension as soon as the traffic surge/spike has decreased to where it won't create a load issue on the server. We will update you at that time. Thank you.
--
Regards,
Tim Greer
Systems engineer - Hostgator.com, LLC.

Well, I asked a HostGator web tech (someone I knew before I signed up for hosting through them) how long this would take. He said it would take only a half hour. It's been over an hour since the second email has been received, so I sent the tech I knew another message.

Quote:(12:53:38) Me: 30 minutes from that email?
(12:53:44) HGator Chad: yes
(12:53:50) HGator Chad: so about 15 Smile
(12:53:56) Me: yeah
(13:11:18) Me: I haven't got an email yet and it's still not up
(13:13:56) HGator Chad: Please link me to the ticket ID again
(13:14:13) Me: HGAbuse #HLV-71736-618
(13:25:22) HGator Chad has gone away.
(13:32:08) HGator Chad is no longer away.
(13:33:00) HGator Chad has gone away.
(13:33:41) HGator Chad is no longer away.
(13:33:52) HGator Chad: we are waiting for the load to drop
(13:33:57) HGator Chad: and our admin will tell you via email when it's ready
(13:34:03) HGator Chad has gone away.
(13:34:07) Me: so the load could never drop?
(13:34:10) HGator Chad <AUTO-REPLY> : I am away from my computer right now.

Notice the 20 minutes I waited for a response and how he went away right after giving my answer. The timestamps on the left will display the periods of time waited.

Saying all this, I don't know when we'll be back up and I don't know what the future is for the next few days. I'm trying as hard as I can to get things back up, but I'm having very little success. I'll keep everyone updated as much as possible.
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#5
looks like you got a DOS attack or something to cause that traffic.
hen they say it can't be done, THAT's when they call me ;-).

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#6
Or someone posted one of those images on a high traffic site
I would assume posting said image into one Fark.com discussion would be almost similar to a dDOS attack.
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#7
I've posted lots of things on SomethingAwful and not had this problem. We also have lots of people who use livejournals. Livejournals get crawled all day long by those "Newest Livejournal Post/Image" sites.

EDIT: Also, it doesn't look like we'll be up again until I move to at least a semi dedicated server plan. The owners don't want to risk FileAnchor bringing down a shared server. If people are looking to get in on sharing parts of a server, let me know and we can work together to set something up.
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#8
I've paid to be moved to the new server. The site should be up in a little bit and then possible downtime tomorrow as they mirror it to the new server (hopefully there is none). After that, we'll be sharing a server with just 3 accounts and have a lot more space.

I'll update with more when I know more.
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#9
Good job Sumo. We really appreciate your hosting.
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#10
Sites are back up.
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