Posted on 07/29/2017 10:09:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Wanted to avoid running a thread on this, but seeing as how it continues dragging on, guess I'd better. The DOS attacker obviously knows by now that he's hurting us.
Have no idea when he/they started the attack, but we discovered it a few days ago. And John has been fighting it ever since. Says it's like whack-a-mole. Every time John gets him blocked or knocked out, he pops up again with a new modified attack. John thought he had a good solution a couple days ago, and we did enjoy one night and most of the next day with good response time, but then the guy popped up again with a fresh attack.
Don't mind telling you that John is getting very frustrated over this. In fact, the last time we discussed it tonight, he finally told me he could do better if I'd just get off the phone and let him work.
Praying John gets him permanently blocked soon and then we can get back to the more mundane hardware and systems problems that have been plaguing us lately.
And I'm sorry about being sorry. Again. Seems like every month and every week a new problem. But we're stubborn and we're not going to quit. We've managed to solve lots of problems over the last twenty years and we'll solve these too. Eventually. Praying not too many of our participants quit either. We absolutely can't get a long without you.
Hang in there everyone, we'll get this behind us soon.
Also, there are some (not to name names, Boomer) who are claiming we make "millions" off this site. If so, it must be government millions, because we don't see much of it. Nowhere close to millions anyway.
Our estimated ongoing budget of expenses is linked on our donate page. I suppose if you total up the gross income for the last 20 years and assume we have no expenses it could add up to a couple million. But anyone whose been in business for any period of time, knows that's not likely.
There are also posters (Boomer again among others) claiming they could do this on cloud for just a few hundred per year. Well, maybe so. I wish them luck.
Prayers up.
So, it is malicious. IIRC, malicious tampering with internet hardware is a felony. Maybe the FBI would be interested? /s
I considered whether to recommend moving the site to Reddit, both for reliability and to save money. A quick look at CNN's partial outing (with Reddit admin support) of the originator of a Trump-CNN video, and at Reddit's deletions of posts, answers that question. We are in the right location. Identities and posting history are not 100% secure, but they are a whole lot more secure than they would be in a different host environment. Thank you for the great work you do.
Thank you for all you do Jim and John. I for one am not going anywhere, this is THE best site on the internet. Remember folks...patience is a virtue.
Play it safe, nuke ‘em from space!
Gives us time to clean out guns....
Gives us time to clean our guns....
"Before an advertiser would be allowed on you could hold a vote so the Freeper community could decide if they were worthy."
Now, how's that go about once a camel get's their nose into the tent...
Looks like MSFT is busy fighting back right now. AT&T seems to have their hands full.
Bush’s fault.
(this has new meaning now that we discovered he’s an ***hole)
We know you are doing the best you can on this Jim. I for one am not going anywhere. This place is home base for me.
Those that are complaining without donating,STHU.
FLAK, not FLACK.
An abbreviation for Flugzeugabwehrkanone, one of those lovely German compound words meaning aircraft defense cannon.
I trust you and John will get to the bottom of it. Hang in here you both are in our prayers. Plus you deserve all the support that all of us who have benefitted from this site can offer. We should not need advertisers. As the tentacles of the deep state get chopped off, the rest is writhing and desperate and pissed off. And they will screw up sooner or later.
Why not eliminate the middleman and let NSA host it?
Hope the asshat can be unmasked - at least he's helping to unmask a LOT of whiny FReeloaders.
FR needs more money to fight this kind of DOS freak, which gives more credence to my position of charging a small fee to ALL Freepers {$10/year} and then having one or two Freepathons for extra capital.
I continue to believe that 99.98% of Freepers can afford a $10 a year charge, and for the two-tenths of one percent that cannot afford it, they can say so on FReeper and I will pay for ten of them and I'm sure there are other FReepers that will cover the rest.
Why are you so reluctant to charge a fee? Is there a law that will change the status of FR? If FR is a tax free institution {501-C3} will that change the status?
It's kinda like 'insurance for pre-existing conditions'...ain't no such thing...by definition.
You can't buy house insurance after the fire starts, you can't buy car insurance after the car is in the ditch...
If an enemy is hurting you, it is a mistake to let him know that.
Also I’m pretty sure that all the tech skills needed to put an end to this problem are already available to you, you need but ask the many experienced tech guys still hanging around here.
Exactly. NSA knows everything already. It’s worth keeping the site private to avoid giving the Ctrl-Left, including their followers in NSA, plausible deniability to leak whatever they want to let out. As for the DOS attack, it’s evidence that a few of America’s enemies know FR is important.
I woke up about 4am EST and had no trouble at all. Still no trouble 3 hours later pages loading fast. Yesterday was the slowest day for me. Maybe it’s beat now.
What’s going on with AT&T?
“I ain’t going nowhere”
I believe you speak for most all of us. Well said sir!
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