Steemit.com Web Servers DDOS Attacked Again!
Anyone having issues accessing the site this morning can blame whomever is responsible for a somewhat powerful DDOS (distributed denail of service) attack which started a few hours back. Steemit Inc has been battling the assault which in it's peak saw over 150K requests a second being pointed at the front end servers used to share the Steemit website.
Mitigation of the DDOS is underway and more web servers are being brought online in order to get the site back to operation status. @sneak has been working his ass off the past few hours trying to get us up and running again. Hopefully soon all regions will have access.
Alternative STEEM Platforms
In the event Steemit.com is down you can use the sites https://busy.org as well as https://chainbb.com to view, post and transfer just as you do here. In the future more platforms are likely to become popular. The two mentioned above are from trusted developers. Be cautious of other sites or steemit clones..
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How many times does this make? I'm curious, because if it's multiple downages that usually points to a blackmail via DDoS, and one of the administrators should have gotten a blackmail message, or will be soon.
Second or third that I've heard of.
Good on you old son for putting this information out! A lot of people have been experiencing FUD over this situation.
No worries, it will all work out. We just need to ensure we have counter-measures in place. As you stated,
Good looking out. @sargento
Thank you for the information @klye, this is very important news for me and all, I will give this news to all my friends, so they are not wrong in doing all activities here, I am also afraid my password will fall into the hands of others.
@tippy vote
I'm sure Steemit.com will be online and running. These things make the network stronger, as it gets immune to these kinds of attacks. Let's just hope the team can handle the technical part of it.
yes it's down for almost 2 to 3 hrs but now it's working, i hope the devs soon create a proper plan to tackle this because some DDOS attacks are so harmful.
yes @klue, once again attack of DDOS their on steemit.com, very bad, i hope that steemit management should do proper action. thanks
if you have information to any other source to open that .
I can not seem to open my account. I was inflamed. I think my account is hacked @klye
thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Klye. I was only just now able to access my account. The bad guys are definitely to blame. But the Steemit technical team will have to learn how to protect the servers. Downtime is never good. Fingers crossed they can get a handle on this.
Thank you for your best warning and information. we are back in Indonesia