Smugmug down???

[caseserve]

In the middle of editing www.caseserve.com (http://www.caseserve.com) (caseserve.smugmug.com) it went away. I tried to load Andy's site www.moonriverphotography.com (http://www.moonriverphotography.com) and it is also bye bye???

:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno

[Andy]

In the middle of editing www.caseserve.com (http://www.caseserve.com) (caseserve.smugmug.com) it went away. I tried to load Andy's site www.moonriverphotography.com (http://www.moonriverphotography.com) and it is also bye bye???

:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno:huh:dunno

Standby please, John.

[boyersmile]

I noticed the same thing. I questioned whether it had something to do with the comment spam problems. Onethumb is fighting back by sending out huge amounts of garbage to the spammer. I'm guessing that this could cause some problems for smugmug's server??? Just my speculation though. It is fine by me if it means we are winning the war against the evil spammer.

Miles

[Zanotti]

Temporary Service Interruption</STRONG> We're having some temporary technical difficulties. We're working on them at the moment, and expect service to return shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're not happy about it, of course, but we are prepared for it and expect there to be no data loss or any long-term reduction in service. Thanks for your patience and understanding!


© 2005 smugmug, inc.</SPAN></STRONG>

[caseserve]

Round 1 went to the spammer for actually spamming all of us :flip
Round 2 went to Onethumb for dumping on him :fish


Round 3 TBD

[caseserve]

caseserve.smugmug.com is down as well as moonriverphotography.com


WTF?

[jamescalder]

caseserve.smugmug.com is down as well as moonriverphotography.com


WTF?

can't get to my site either - jamescalder.smugmug.com

:dunno

[Mike Lane]

My site works as of 0814 pacific time.

[jamescalder]

My site works as of 0814 pacific time.

fine here now too, also, as well...

:D

[Techman1]

I'm not able to get to my site:

Events.FredDickinson.com

or by going directly through my Smugmug.com link.

Is this a regional thing as I'm not able to link to MikeLane's site above either currently.

Anybody else?

Fred

[jamescalder]

I'm not able to get to my site:

Events.FredDickinson.com

or by going directly through my Smugmug.com link.

Is this a regional thing as I'm not able to link to MikeLane's site above either currently.

Anybody else?

Fred
amd of course, now i refreshed, it's down again, but at least it's official now!
Temporary Service Interruption</STRONG> We're having some temporary technical difficulties. We're working on them at the moment, and expect service to return shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're not happy about it, of course, but we are prepared for it and expect there to be no data loss or any long-term reduction in service. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

[BridgeCity]

I'm down as well

bridgecitystudios.smugmug.com

[tmanchester]

Same here--right when I am trying to work with a customer via phone to view photos to identify individuals.

Just lucky, I guess.

[tmanchester]

pbase to the rescue! Glad I still have that account.

[Shima]

Need.... pictures...

...going....through....withdrawal...

[Art Scott]

This is what I get when I try to go to my site:
www.CONTEMPORARY-VISIONS.com


http://www.contemporary-visions.com/img/smugmug_black.gif (http://www.smugmug.com/)

Temporary Service Interruption We're having some temporary technical difficulties. We're working on them at the moment, and expect service to return shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're not happy about it, of course, but we are prepared for it and expect there to be no data loss or any long-term reduction in service. Thanks for your patience and understanding!


© 2005 smugmug, inc.</SPAN></STRONG></STRONG>

[Techman1]

I'm glad the note is coming up now. That way if clients visit at least they know it is a problem with the site.

Hopefully it will be back up soon. :wink

Take care all!

Fred

[mbrady]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent battles with the comment spammers?

[DanielB]

:nod my websites down as well as www.moonriverphotography.com (http://www.moonriverphotography.com)

whats the dealio:dunno

[jamescalder]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent battles with the comment spammers?
hope the spammer doesn't have a big brother who came and knocked on Don's door...

:rambo

[Shima]

hope the spammer doesn't have a big brother who came and knocked on Don's door...

:rambo

Could it be from a spam overload? Maybe there was too much stress on the servers because of our recent spammer...

[kygarden]

11 minutes to go on my ebay auctions and no photos :rolleyes. Hope the glitches get worked out soon. This is why I left Pbase :(

[bham]

One of my smugmug sites is running while the other is down. Guess it isn't system wide.

[onethumb]

11 minutes to go on my ebay auctions and no photos :rolleyes. Hope the glitches get worked out soon. This is why I left Pbase :(

Wish these were glitches - but they're not.

smugmug was/is the target of a large-scale Denial-of-Service attack.

I currently have it under control, but I have my doubts as to whether that will last too long.

Andrew and I are going to make some emergency network upgrades during the day today which should help. Unfortunately, these sorts of things are nearly impossible to combat - our upgrades will only help us get a little more insight into what's going on, but won't significantly help our ability to stop them.

The reason stopping them is so difficult, by the way, is the way DoS attacks occur these days. Rather than a single machine attacking us, it's usually thousands and thousands of them spread across the globe. Who has thousands of machine, you may ask? It turns out that people have made a game and a business out of taking over Windows boxes with security holes and then utilizing them to take out websites like ours.

We'll do our best, and we appreciate your patience.

Don

[ziggy53]

WooHoo!

They're back online in Illinois!

Thanks Don!

ziggy53

[DanielB]

back up in Kansas,

thanks Don:thumb

[caseserve]

Round 1 went to the spammer for actually spamming all of us :flip
Round 2 went to Onethumb for dumping on him :fish


Round 3 TBD

Round 3 goes to the pissed off spammer!

[onethumb]

Round 3 goes to the pissed off spammer!

I don't *think* so, but it's impossible to be sure.

The spammer is still trying to spam right this second (and not succeeding), so I don't think he even knows that he's not able to post. Likely he just hit "GO" on his script and walked away.

I think this is something else entirely. It's possible we're the topic of discussion on some hax0r message forum which is where both spammers got us from as well as the DoS guy.

We'll see, though.

Don

[jamescalder]

I don't *think* so, but it's impossible to be sure.

The spammer is still trying to spam right this second (and not succeeding), so I don't think he even knows that he's not able to post. Likely he just hit "GO" on his script and walked away.

I think this is something else entirely. It's possible we're the topic of discussion on some hax0r message forum which is where both spammers got us from as well as the DoS guy.

We'll see, though.

Don
my local newspaper had a fascinating article about one such hacker in their sunday magazine this past weekend - he's one of the folks who makes his living off creating and using the "botnets" responsible for such Denial of Service attacks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401342.html

:rolleyes

[vebberts]

Most everything on my site is up, except there's a bevy of smugmug green text.
:huh

[Art Scott]

12:05 PM CST and I can get back into my site...yeaaaaa!!!!:clap :clap

hope it isn't just temporary.

[cyoung]

Anyone else's site down? Dgrin was also down about 5 minutes ago:dunno. is SM being DoS attacked again?

[cyoung]

Nevermind, its back up now:scratch

Anyone else's site down? Dgrin was also down about 5 minutes ago:dunno. is SM being DoS attacked again?

[caseserve]

Down 2/23/06 9:00pm EST

[Andy]

Down 2/23/06 9:00pm EST
John, I can hit your site just fine :dunno

[mbrady]

Anyone else's site down? Dgrin was also down about 5 minutes ago:dunno. is SM being DoS attacked again?

I experienced the same thing, both dgrin and smugmug down briefly.

[DanielB]

I experienced the same thing, both dgrin and smugmug down briefly.

:nod about 20 minutes ago. it came back up but both were down for about 15 minutes:uhoh i hope Don is winning.

[caseserve]

Ok, in the middle of updating my site, it froze up, went away whatever. So my benchmark is to hit Andy's site. Well his is borked www.moonriverphotography.com (http://www.moonriverphotography.com)

Still having problems??

EDIT: Ok I just went back to Andy's site and it is now ok. He had no menu displaying, his menu items were listed as a list down the left side of the page and his galleryies/categories were showing on his homepage.

I swear I saw it I really really saw it :lol

[JimM]

Definately things are moving slowly...

[mercphoto]

Definately things are moving slowly...
Things seem ok on my end. I've been uploading since about 8:30am. In five hours got just over 250 photos up, which is about 50 per hour. This is typical for my uploads.

Even cable modem feels slow any more... :(

[caseserve]

Whats going on, I'm going to my site, it's down. Try Andy's site it's down. Bot sites timeout and unable to load. At the same time I'm on here (dgrin) try each of them again. Same thing. Then, they come up.

I don't think it's me, because I'm able to see dgrin, as well as about 5 other sites at the same time via tabs in FF, I refresh them. There all there, except smugmug.

Any ideas?

[Andy]

Whats going on, I'm going to my site, it's down. Try Andy's site it's down. Bot sites timeout and unable to load. At the same time I'm on here (dgrin) try each of them again. Same thing. Then, they come up.

I don't think it's me, because I'm able to see dgrin, as well as about 5 other sites at the same time via tabs in FF, I refresh them. There all there, except smugmug.

Any ideas?

10:06 ET John, I can hit all sites including yours just fine. Check your connection.

[richtersl]

Whats going on, I'm going to my site, it's down. Try Andy's site it's down. Bot sites timeout and unable to load. At the same time I'm on here (dgrin) try each of them again. Same thing. Then, they come up.

I don't think it's me, because I'm able to see dgrin, as well as about 5 other sites at the same time via tabs in FF, I refresh them. There all there, except smugmug.

Any ideas?
I had a problem right around the same time. But it seems to have resolved itself. At 10:10 I was able to get back in.

[caseserve]

10:06 ET John, I can hit all sites including yours just fine. Check your connection.

Andy, you keep telling me you can hit my site just fine. Well it's an intermitten problem that is not on my side. Look at the other post after yours, she had the same problem!

[Andy]

Andy, you keep telling me you can hit my site just fine. Well it's an intermitten problem that is not on my side. Look at the other post after yours, she had the same problem!

:dunno John - I call it like I see it. I'm sorry you had trouble - I'll sure try and find out if there's any problem... Remember, sometimes indeed there are internet pipe issues that are local in nature. And you, as well as the richtersl are in (generally) the same geography.

Are you in now? Can you get to your site? Thanks for letting us know... :ear

[caseserve]

:dunno John - I call it like I see it. I'm sorry you had trouble - I'll sure try and find out if there's any problem... Remember, sometimes indeed there are internet pipe issues that are local in nature. And you, as well as the richtersl are in (generally) the same geography.

Are you in now? Can you get to your site? Thanks for letting us know... :ear

Andy, Yes all is ok with the world according to smugmug now :clap

Thanks,

[garyjwood]

Andy, Yes all is ok with the world according to smugmug now :clap

Thanks,
Anyone else notice that flickr was down this morning? :giggle

[Mike Lane]

Anyone else notice that flickr was down this morning? :giggle

flickr? What's that?

[garyjwood]

flickr? What's that?
flickr (http://www.flickr.com), Schadenfreude (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude)

but you knew that, didn't you? :wink

[mercphoto]

Andy, you keep telling me you can hit my site just fine. Well it's an intermitten problem that is not on my side. Look at the other post after yours, she had the same problem!
I've had customers tell me the very same thing, that the site occassionally goes down but reappears minutes later. I've seen it myself, and during those times I'm able to surf to other sites just fine.

[caseserve]

caseserve.smugmug.com was down???

[Andy]

caseserve.smugmug.com was down???

John, I can hit your site just fine. What's up?

[dmc]

you don't have a cordless phone do you? (or a neighbor?)

I have a laptop at home with a wireless card. Occasionally i'll be cruising along when suddenly, the internet stops responding... I say, OMG smugmug is down. I try re-starting the browser... nope, reboot... no help, go to my desktop... hmmm, that is working :huh etc....

took me a while to figure out that my wife on the phone interfered with my wireless card. :wxwax She wouldn't have any problem, but my surfing would come to an abrupt halt. I think the phone is 2.5ghz freq, and so is my card. (or something like that..)

[bwg]

i was unable to connect today too at the same time that everyone else was unable. something screwy went on, whether it was SM or a routing issue out here.