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What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« on: July 30, 2012, 07:22:09 pm »
Most of you must have noticed, Pokemon Universe was down for something more than a day. This was because someone (we don't know who) decided to DDoS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack) our server which made the website unavailable for anyone.

Even with the website back up the DDoS attack is not over and we're still looking at solutions to prevent the current attack and attacks which may happen in the future. So if the website is unavailable again it will probably mean the attackers have figured out our current solution and started attacking that.

As a side note, our chat is always available so you can always contact us there if you're unable to access the website. Bookmark the link so you'll always have it :)

That's all the info I can give you for now. I'll report back when I have more info about the stability of our server and website.

Update 01/08/12: DDOS attack seems to be over. Lets hope it stays away :)
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Re: What happened to the website?!
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2012, 08:00:47 pm »
Well this is a first.  ??? Hope it all works out though.
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Re: What happened to the website?!
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2012, 04:35:06 pm »
DDOS seems to be over, lets hope it stays away.

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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2012, 01:41:47 am »
Glad it was sorted out!  ;D
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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2012, 01:54:17 am »
Hehe I am sure there was a bunch of people worried....That this was the end of PU glad to see it isn't :)

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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2012, 09:04:59 am »
Hehe I am sure there was a bunch of people worried....That this was the end of PU glad to see it isn't :)

No, we wouldn't end PU like that, we have too much of an history with you guys. :)

FYI, we're not planning to stop with PU, things are just about to continue again.
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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2012, 04:03:54 am »
A friend of mine has some powerful anti-ddos software, I'll see if I can hook you guys up.

 Hope it helps. :)
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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2012, 04:17:29 am »
YAY! It's over! :D (hopefully. owo)
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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2012, 04:19:37 am »
Over. for now. I'm still gonna ask him to hook you guys up, just in case.
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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2012, 09:09:37 am »
Hehe I am sure there was a bunch of people worried....That this was the end of PU glad to see it isn't :)

No, we wouldn't end PU like that, we have too much of an history with you guys. :)

FYI, we're not planning to stop with PU, things are just about to continue again.

I am glad that it won't be stopped so easily...Yea there is a lot of history for quite a few people on this site...I only recently became active this year but I have been lurking for quite a long time :)
Must say I wish I would of became active a long time ago. Because I am having lots of fun.

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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2012, 09:10:09 am »
Yesterday morning we got attacked again. Now we moved our domain settings to another server, this way they can't get the IP address of our main server, meaning they can't attack it :)
We hope this will keep the attacks away.
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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2012, 09:39:13 am »
*goes find the attackers* *Puts a bullet in their head...* I wish they would stop whoever they are!!! :(

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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2012, 11:25:48 am »
*goes find the attackers* *Puts a bullet in their head...* I wish they would stop whoever they are!!! :(
You're not the only one who wants to know. I've had contact with admin from other Pokemon (MMO)RPGs and they were also attacked. So it seems like a direct attack to Pokemon RPG websites.
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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2012, 02:41:18 pm »
Maybe they are just jealous because they didn't think of this idea first? And just wanting to be a jerk to anyone who is making one.

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Re: What happened to the website?! [UPDATE]
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2012, 02:45:17 pm »
Huh, that's strange.  ??? I wonder what they have against the Pokemon RPG's... They have to have some kind of motive.
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