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    Posted: March 06 2011 at 06:57
PA is back online, after being offline for 6 hours.

Cause: unknown

Thanks to all for reporting it, to accelerate the fix.

M@X


Edited by M@X - March 06 2011 at 06:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2011 at 07:03
Thanks, M@X. Smile

I wondered what the hell was happening. And I suspected it's on my end again. I'm glad it wasn't and that it's back to normal finally.

BTW, MMA was also unavailable.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2011 at 07:12

....... and the hospitals will be very busy in 9 months time, taking delivery of new babies. Named..........


Jenniffer Max McGregor

Sandra Max Patel

Peter Max Hansson

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2011 at 07:21
And I was getting the rope ready. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2011 at 07:22
I was going mad trying to get online... all evening I had no contact and even the metalmusic archives was completely down!... whats going on there?
 
I guess they are linked but its weird. So it wasnt the Nazis?LOL 
 
Anyway glad its back but it made me think of what we take for granted, and life without the PA was rather upsetting....Disapprove
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2011 at 07:23
I sent this message off but no one saw it:
 
Hi guys
 
 
I cant access the progarchives website all day, and I wonder if its still active or if there is a major problem with the IP or what... same applies for MMA, just nothing there! Can anyone enlighten me as to what is happening?

 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2011 at 07:31
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

And I was getting the rope ready. 
I even had the margarine out of the fridge.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2011 at 21:07
PA got DDoS'd.

Never saw it coming.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 01:58
^^^^ in English?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 02:07
Denial of Server Attack - basically, hackers overload the server so it can't respond normally, forcing it offline.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 02:15
Can they do that?
 
 
well, i hope that can be prevented.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 02:18
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Can they do that?
 
 
well, i hope that can be prevented.


Oh yes, they can do it, and they can do it to bigger and better protected sites than PA.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 03:40
You would think people had better thnkgs to do than cause websites to go offline for a few hours. Time wasters are stupid, hackers doubly so. What sense is there in it and what do they get out of it?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 03:55
how can you be sure it was DDoS'ed ? 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 05:56
More like a server issue if PA and MMA were offline
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 11:49
LOL Ben, it wasn't a DDoS.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 11:59
I ended up cleaning out a closet, since I had nothing better to do with PA offline Cry, and found some old cassette tapes I had made 25yrs ago.....My cassette deck died a yr ago so I busted out the Sony boom box, also in the closet. I was a pretty good mix DJ turns out! Played some stuff I no longer have the vinyl for........made a list of vinyl to look for now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 17:00
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I ended up cleaning out a closet, since I had nothing better to do with PA offline Cry,


Some people need to get a life! Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2011 at 17:05
Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

LOL Ben, it wasn't a DDoS.


I never said it got DDoS'd, I was only explaining what it was to ACR.
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