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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 255395" data-attributes="member: 1">My intrepretation of the message that I saw is that someone asked a group of people to come here and take the site down with an overwhelming amount of posts which all had the same agenda. I didn&#039;t think they meant take the site down with some kind of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service" target="_blank">denial of service</a> attack, but now I&#039;m not so sure.&nbsp;Since then the site has been getting periodically bombarded with connections which really slow things down and often crash the database. This morning the database crash was so severe I had to restore everything from backup. &nbsp;The techs at the hosting company where we rent server space are custom building a dedicated server for the site which should make it alot faster and more secure. Until it&#039;s completed we&#039;ll probably continue to suffer some outages and slow loads.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 255395, member: 1"] My intrepretation of the message that I saw is that someone asked a group of people to come here and take the site down with an overwhelming amount of posts which all had the same agenda. I didn't think they meant take the site down with some kind of a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service"]denial of service[/URL] attack, but now I'm not so sure. Since then the site has been getting periodically bombarded with connections which really slow things down and often crash the database. This morning the database crash was so severe I had to restore everything from backup. The techs at the hosting company where we rent server space are custom building a dedicated server for the site which should make it alot faster and more secure. Until it's completed we'll probably continue to suffer some outages and slow loads. [/QUOTE]

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