Update Regarding DDoS Attack on Steemit.com
Steemit.com has been subjected to a sustained DDoS attack, that brought down the website for several hours last night and into this morning. The Steemit team has been working tirelessly through the night to address the attack and bring services back online.
The outage was unrelated to any recent changes that were applied to Steemit.com. The site has been getting requests on the order of a hundred thousand per second from someone using a botnet spanning throughout dozens of countries.
The DDoS attack only affected the Steemit.com website. The blockchain was unaffected, and other websites that interact with the blockchain remained operational during the attack.
Several changes have been made to mitigate the attack in the short term, and we are working on several improvements that will make the website more robust to these types of attacks in the future.
Steem On.
Team Steemit
Haha, good one!
Poor servers :(
is it flying ? xd
Lmao I agree!
hahahahahahahaha :D
lmao.
Hahaha!
I think that's not a bird but a yellow butterfly 😂... I'm a genius
Hehehe lmao 😂😂
attacks are good I guess.. bring it ON..
If we handle it, no pain then no gain. Agreed. Bring them on.
Probly zuckerburg
I [ @openparadigm ]have been saying the same thing, time to go spam Facebook with steemit propaganda!
Haha, yeah, they should be fearing Steemit by now, so it makes a lot of sense ;)
That was a good one =D
lol
lol
I was think this too :) I see... I am not the only one who think this :)
Zuckerface McTshirt
Tell Mark to Zuck it.
The Steemit Dev team vs botnet army...
Maximum effort guys! Kick Sum Ass.
lol. Remarkably close to what was actually going on behind the scenes!
Community Liaison, Steemit
Really appreciate all you do, guys. Top effort today. Have a beer :)
We appreciate that, thanks!
Community Liaison, Steemit
One thing is for sure Steemit is getting noticed and with that comes the idiots who want to cause trouble or worse.
I think its safe to say it won't be the last time someone attempts it, but one thing is for sure they won't break the community spirit that exists here on Steemit and I sure there are many tech specialists on here willing to jump in and help.
On that note, well done to Steemit Team
Yes some competitor or haters.
WE ARE STILL HERE.
:)
It is now down again... ok... I am giving up today.
How'd you comment this then??
I don't like the UI of busy.org maybe I am just used to steemit.com LOL
Have you tried the Esteem app?
Yes, don't like it... and someone told me that esteem will have a portion of your payout if you publish the post using it.
Oh yikes. Thanks for the heads up, now I'm glad I didn't use it! I'm all for sharing, but 50% seems steep.
Well if this would have had much "sentimental" influence, causing sell-off of Steem, I'd be interested in seeing who was loading up this weekend. (Perhaps "SteemPower" helped in this regard). It is said that an arsonist can usually be found among the crowd of onlookers as firefighters labor to minimize destruction. ( tonight I'll dream- Loud beating on my door. Opening to be confronted by Ned and two FBI agents, warrant in hand, lol ) No, seriously I had nothing to do with it.
Or the arsonist is the firefighter :)
Now I'm intrigued!
I used to read true crime and often the perp is an insider.
Bravo! The steemit team are doing a great job. I noticed the difficulty in login, but they really worked hard to resolve it fast.
DdoS is a proof that steemit is getting importance of group of people. Good thing is that steem blockchain is safe and there are alternatives in busy.org, chain.bb and esteem.