Public Info - why the server was down

[Akomine (OP)]

As far as we know, our host was attacked which brought their entire service down. These attacks happen periodically, and whether it is by individuals, disgruntled customers, or opposing host companies, we do not know.

Just know that these outages have literally NOTHING to do with VillageCraft, and are always temporary.

With that said, even though its not our fault,
Sorry about that!

~Akomine

[cjm721]

If only we could see those logs because it would take a bot network over 500 to take the host down (or at least it should take atleast that much.

[Akomine (OP)]

Air says that our host said that they suspect that an opposing hosting company did the attack, which might make sense if the numbers you are saying are roughly accurate.

[cjm721]

Saying that's what  should at least take to take down a hosting company. If they said it was a rival host then I could expect to see a law suit from it, unless it came from china where hacking/shutting down us servers is encouraged.


I do remember some kid from MIT after china hacked the pentagon he crippled china's web system. Had to do a country wide reload. Kinda scary what is possible.


On side note google had a competition to take down their old server and the winning guy had a bot network of over 25k computers with 100 T1 connections to do it. And as a reminder of your computer can connect to the Internet it is vanurable to a hack ( wifi even if your not connected to a router).