Many of you who are frequent readers of WBF probably know that our site and many others were down yesterday. It was impossible to ping our site or after a lengthy attempt it timed out with an Error Code 503 and 500 followed by a white screen
Fortunately we incurred no serious sequelae whatsoever. Discussion with our web host lead to this reply
Hi,
The issue has been fixed and the website is loading fine now. There was huge connection from china to the server which caused the service outage. This has been taken care of to prevent this from happening in future. Let us know if you need any further assistance.
As a result China and Hong Kong have been blocked at the server firewall to prevent further assaults and hacks
The sequelae to this is the likelihood that existing members from China and Hong Kong will be blocked access to WBF
If this is the case a VPN may be required to gain access.
Yesterday’s attempt on the server was about as serious as they get and our web host had to take appropriate action
We hope everyone understands the implications
Fortunately we incurred no serious sequelae whatsoever. Discussion with our web host lead to this reply
Hi,
The issue has been fixed and the website is loading fine now. There was huge connection from china to the server which caused the service outage. This has been taken care of to prevent this from happening in future. Let us know if you need any further assistance.
As a result China and Hong Kong have been blocked at the server firewall to prevent further assaults and hacks
The sequelae to this is the likelihood that existing members from China and Hong Kong will be blocked access to WBF
If this is the case a VPN may be required to gain access.
Yesterday’s attempt on the server was about as serious as they get and our web host had to take appropriate action
We hope everyone understands the implications