[Jan-Paul]

Hi all,


The server is up and running..

I apologize for my absence over the past 3 days, my newborn son was in the hospital but he is ok now, we are back at home. Unfortunately cell phones aren't allowed in the hospital so nobody was able to get ahold of me.

We suffered a pretty large-scale attack (coordinated from different locations) on both of our redundant servers on the 20th. This continued until just a few hours ago when I manually pulled the plug, and identified/blocked the offending nodes. We are now resetting the system and it should be back up and running within 2 hours.

Network attacks have been pretty constant for us over the past 2 years and we have been actively fighting it improving things. After this latest attack, we will in turn be adding new security and redundancy, as well as completely re-designing the client access methods to prevent this kind of thing in the future

FWIW we already have a redundant server, we are currently already working on the 3rd ETA next week, as well as server-status pages and administrator capability (i.e. by Chris and Jim) to automatically reset servers if problems should come up.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our users over the past couple days, and vow to put all our effort into competing the new more recoverable system should any attacks, network problems, hardware failures, or other problems come up. This will be our first priority.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Best,







Damian Clark