What makes me think its a DOS attack is one time when i couldnt access the site,i tried a few things. I couldl ping it and get a response back on ping times. I could run a tracert on it and i didnt have any packet loss at the whole route. Packets went all the way to subsims servers without a problem.

The site simply was not responding to any requests. Only reason it would do that i figure, is because its overloaded with them.

But this is all conjecture. All they have to do is check their traffic logs and they'll know if they're getting slammed or not.

still working on it

Neal.
Chicago/central time
Site worked great yesterday(friday) from mid afternoon on but
this morning(saturday) been trying since around 6:30 just now succesful.

It did it again Saturday morning about 2AM PST. Just letting you know Neal.

thanks. Andy has completed a recover/sort on the tables, let's see how that works.

So far it seems to have helped, the forum speed is back to normal. Now we'll see about the long term performance.

Same problem again for me today, Neal.

Monday, Dec 12. Florida.
Forum was not accessable from noon to 6 PM USA EST. I've been at the computer the whole time, checking every 30 minutes or so.

Not sure what gives. Thought you better know.

TT

subsim has been dpwn for about 3 hours since this post

I second that from West Central Illinois.

ok, thanks for the FYI, will check on what we can do next

yep, pretty severe downtime for me too in the past little while... :cry:

Ok, we did some more work on the database, let's see how she holds up now.

The Forum was down Thursday from around 9pm till midnight Eastern Time.

Yes, had to reboot server. thanks

Neal and John, what's up with logging in to the site? I have to log in every time even with "remember me" checked. It's just a pain is all, and wondering if there's a fix. Yes Cookies are enabled.

S! and have a Merry Christmas everyone. See you all when I return from my Clark Griswold "Christmas Vacation". ;) LOL