pollux.cyberfusion.nl down
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Cause determined
We've determined that the 'attack' is many, many bots crawling hundreds of websites all at the same time. They have deviating and non-standard User-Agents and source IPs, making them hard to block.
The newly added resources may help prevent any noticeable impact. We're monitoring that.
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Back up
pollux is back up with more resources. Sites are back up, but will take a few minutes to get back up to speed. We're monitoring the situation.
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Maintenance announced in 5 minutes
We're going to perform maintenance on pollux at 15:30 Amsterdam time (in 5 minutes), to temporarily add more resources.
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Attack re-started
The attack restarted at 15:01. We're researching, again.
The mitigation plan was performed earlier today but turns out to not be effective enough.
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Mitigation plan being made
We're making a mitigation plan for if this occurs again, or prevent if possible. We expect to implement this plan by tomorrow.
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Sites are back up
Sites have been back up for several minutes. We're still talking to the external specialists.
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Attack re-started
The attack restarted at 15:21. We're still researching.
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Specialists called in
Sites are still up.
We've called in external DirectAdmin specialists to get more intel on where these attacks are coming from. We will place an update within the hour.
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Sites are back up
Sites are up again, albeit slower for the time being.
We're monitoring the situation, and are seeing what we can do to prevent this.
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pollux.cyberfusion.nl down
At 15:01, our monitoring detected that pollux.cyberfusion.nl is overloaded. This seems to be caused by a DDoS attack. We're currently researching.
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Sites are back up
Sites are up again. The attack hasn't restarted.
We're monitoring the situation.
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pollux.cyberfusion.nl down
At 14:57, our monitoring detected that pollux.cyberfusion.nl is overloaded. This seems to be caused by a DDoS attack. We're currently researching.
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Sites still back up
Sites are still up. The attack hasn't restarted.
We're monitoring the situation.
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Restarting containers
We're currently restarting all containers to clean up a heap of defunct PHP processes.
The web server has also been restarted.
Many sites are back up and we're monitoring whether that stays the case.
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pollux.cyberfusion.nl down
At 14:56, our monitoring detected that pollux.cyberfusion.nl is overloaded. This seems to be caused by a DDoS attack. We're currently researching.
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