Kudos guys, we really do appreciate all the hard work you do for this community! 
Tech Update (aka what the hell happened to the servers)
The forums have been archived. Please read this thread for more information.
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A little WordPress Pingback DDoS (secure your XMLRPC file, dear bloggers, thanks) of 54,432 concurrent connections peak made the PHP backend go crazy.
After analyzing the problem, we managed to stop such requests before they can stress the backend.
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So, basically the bros crashed the website. I am going to speak for most of the bros here.
"WHOOPS. SORRY 'BOUT THAT."I have seemed to have misplace my sanity. Can you help me find it?
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oh thats why it was down
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doesn't matter..we came here to have fun and bond as bros!
Thank you for the hard work! You deserve a brofist 
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I panicked because I'm no techy genius... I'm a guy who shoots his problems to solve them
I nearly shot this... thing I'm using to do stuff on this virtual world thinking the forum died forever
Seriously though great job on getting it back! I was trying to get back on it after sorting out my artsy fartsy stuff then was like "OH GAD FORUM Y U DISAPPEAR T_T"
I'll make sure to draw up something to celebrate-ish the come back of the forum from the virtual disaster hehe
"When life gives you bullets... ME! CORMANO!"
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Thanks for doing hard work (wasn't there during the problems). And with a very large fanbase, problems is to be expected. Keep up the good work!
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It did get a lot better. Couldn't access to the website so far, crashed every five minutes. Happy to see it's not the case anymore. Thank for your work, it's very appreciated.-Faceaxe forever-
#FUCKIT
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I'm so nice...
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I guess it's us bros who slow the loading speed of this site, too, then? (haha)
Anyway, thanks very much for the hard work, peeps who do their best to keep this site up! Keep on doing your best with what you do! Here's a brofist, too! Do your best, have fun, keep calm, look at the bright side, and friendship for the win!
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There has also been an "engine" switch, the board is now running on a WAY more secure and stable webserver than before.
No, not nginx, thats what we switched from.
I've been using it personally for some years now, it is made by a paranoid person which focuses on stability and security.
We are now using
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I'M ALREADY LIKING THIS NEW ENGINE
Native for a mascot... I'm feeling more and more at home already
"When life gives you bullets... ME! CORMANO!"
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I think that the fact that the bros were able to crash the website combined with the fact we have a new system needs a celebration gif to celebrate.
I have seemed to have misplace my sanity. Can you help me find it?
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Wolowitz' Donkey Kong dance though.
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Nice to hear this! I see you guys use Linux servers, why dont you disable Xerxes.c incoming packages? Because Xerxes.c is one of the strongest stressers out here...
And Hiawatha is indeed a good webserver, but nginx is more customisable on my thoughts?
++ A feature that bans the IP of the people stressing / DDosing would be nice? Most hosting companys are including this in most (web)servers.
Greetings,
Matthew (Mathieu). -
NamiKajuji wrote:
I think that the fact that the bros were able to crash the website combined with the fact we have a new system needs a celebration gif to celebrate.
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Thanks.
It's glad that you guys could of fixed the problem quick enough so that nothing major happened, and thanks again for telling us what happened.
I really appreciate it
#Bro 4 Life
#BROFIST
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