Outage reason, May 28th, '24

[CapnK]

Well, we got hit with a DDOS attack for some reason. I have no idea why anyone would bother doing that, as there is no real data here of any monetary value. At any rate, the site is back up now. Apologie sto any who noticed it, it was not anything I had any control over.

To give you an idea of how bad it was, the site usually only sees a few real, discreet visitors (ie not Search 'bots', but regular computer visitors) on a daily basis.

Yesterday, however, there were over 1.1 MILLION "visitor" queries launched at the site before the server company shut it down.

See the Stats screenshot below. Egads.

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[Eidoloneliz23]

Amazing! Phenomenal growth!!!
Probably no targeting, just some bot trying to get a percentage of the phishing attempts to pan out.
Thanks for your diligence and getting the site back up.

I use it for reference off and on and really appreciate it!

Eliz