Xanga

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:53 am

For those who have yet to see it:

Due to continued and ongoing DDOS attacks, Xanga has now been down for over 24 hours.

This is the most concerted and determined of all the attacks we have experienced. Every time we bring the site back up, our attacker will find another avenue to renew their attack. I'm sure whoever is attacking us sees this all as a game, and is having a grand old time. I don't really get that mindset. Also, each and every one of these attacks is a felony charge.

These attacks have placed us in a classic Catch-22.

We want to share as many details as possible with our fellow Xangans
We don't want to give information that our attacker can use against us
We have chosen to break that conflict by upgrading both our hardware and our ISP. As many of you have pointed out, it is difficult to defend a Distributed Denial of Service attack. However, there are things that you can do to greatly increase your defenses - and rest assured, we are doing every one of them.

Many of you have asked for an ETA on bringing the site back up. Here's the deal - there's a chance we can get the site back up tonight, at our current ISP. If that doesn't work, then we will move the site first thing tomorrow morning and have it up by the afternoon.

We will find a way to make it up to all of you. In the meantime, our entire team is working around the clock to bring the site back up - better and stronger than ever.

Thanks for your patience,
The Xanga Team

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:38 pm

i miss xanga. how lame is that.

karlaBOO · Post by **karlaBOO** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:10 pm

me too. Me=DORK

Bastet · Post by **Bastet** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:00 pm

i miss it too....!!! i realize i'm a nerd.... hehe. i wanted to tell all about winning my third place trophy at the family horseshoe tournament this past weekend but NOOOOOOOOO. hehe. k....back to nerd-dom for me.
kasi

Celestial Dung · Post by **Celestial Dung** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:10 pm

No what we really wanna talk about is me getting 50 rank in the Bob Dylan Never Ending Concert Pool

http://pool.dylantree.com/pool_indiv_results.php?t=10

That's 50 out of 1855 folks.

Seriously I had this entire blog ready to detail about me getting to rank fifty and what it means and how I might even crack the top forty this touring season. And I was going to go on and on about the difficulties this game presents and the off beat prizes and and and..

See Cas, at least horseshoes is a physical communial activity.

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:47 pm

OOOOH OOHH!!! ITS BACK UP!!!

at least for the moment....lol..

*puts on tourniquet and slaps veins*

karlaBOO · Post by **karlaBOO** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:04 pm

Buttercup wrote:OOOOH OOHH!!! ITS BACK UP!!!

at least for the moment....lol..

*puts on tourniquet and slaps veins*

No, it's not. Or.....not anymore. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.............

Lost Traveler · Post by **Lost Traveler** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:59 pm

Damn wounder what happened to get the hakers all agitated.

ReddErin · Post by **ReddErin** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:16 pm

I don't miss it terribly, but it is entertaining. It also helps me keep up with people I never get to see (Kasi, Karla, Suz, Shadow, Morgan, Jay, et al). I am frustrated by the lack of stability, though. It's annoying to not know when it will be up and down. As of late, it's been better than it was, say, a year ago. I guess you can't plan for hackers.

Nexxus23 · Post by **Nexxus23** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:10 am

They've got a new announcement...

We are moving Xanga to a new ISP as we speak! This will enable us to better withstand DDOS attacks like the one that has brought the site down this week. We hope to have the website up tonight, hopefully by at least 8 am. We will be posting update as we have them.

We are so sorry about this, and hope to have the site up soon.

The Xanga Team

Sir Diddimus · Post by **Sir Diddimus** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:22 am

Yeah, last night it said hopefully by 2AM. That didn't happen. And, 8AM has come and gone without the service restored.

I'm having withdrawals....... I need my Xanga fix!!!!!

torch_32 · Post by **torch_32** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:25 am

Nexxus23 wrote:They've got a new announcement...

We are moving Xanga to a new ISP as we speak! This will enable us to better withstand DDOS attacks like the one that has brought the site down this week. We hope to have the website up tonight, hopefully by at least 8 am. We will be posting update as we have them.

We are so sorry about this, and hope to have the site up soon.

The Xanga Team

Where do you see these announcements?

Nexxus23 · Post by **Nexxus23** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:27 am

torch_32 wrote:
Nexxus23 wrote:They've got a new announcement...

We are moving Xanga to a new ISP as we speak! This will enable us to better withstand DDOS attacks like the one that has brought the site down this week. We hope to have the website up tonight, hopefully by at least 8 am. We will be posting update as we have them.

We are so sorry about this, and hope to have the site up soon.

The Xanga Team
Where do you see these announcements?

http://www.xanga.com

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:03 am

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:23 am

iblis wrote:

I just got on...don't know how long it'll work though..

OmeGaDucK · Post by **OmeGaDucK** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:40 am

It appears to be up and running this morning...I wonder how long?

i particularly didn't miss it that much...I have a LJ account to feed my obsession.

But, for those that have me as subscribers know that I don't really update that much. I really dont like how it's laid out. BUt, I like the fact you can personalizr you page more than other places.

Once Candicide gets a paid LJ account we can give you guys access codes so you too can join LJ ranks!!!!

Nexxus23 · Post by **Nexxus23** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:51 am

iblis wrote: