Author Topic: CathInfo back up after Denial of Service attack (Read 3458 times)

Matthew · « **on:** April 03, 2016, 09:13:34 AM »

At any rate, I don't have much time left after that little adventure.

I spent a lot of time Saturday optimizing the site, and waiting on the computer/phone with my webhost, Hostgator.

They wanted to blame me/CathInfo rather than the attacker for some reason. They kept treating it as a normal "traffic overage" issue, and they have to protect the other accounts on the server, yadda yadda.

I understand the other accounts don't deserve to be affected. BUT -- why not re-enable CathInfo once the latest attacker IPs have been dealt with? Why cause CathInfo to be down for hours unnecessarily? The tech support man who dealt with the latest attack wave knew what he was doing. He knew it was dealt with -- and yet he didn't have the authority to re-enable the site. Sounds like I need to find a better webhost. By the way, my host is HOSTGATOR. I do not recommend them. If I had more time, I'd work on switching hosts.

But right now it's Sunday, and that means time to get ready to host Mass here again. Things need to be prepared and cleaned, and we have High Mass and potluck today (1st Sunday of the month), so there's some extra preparation there.

Stubborn · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2016, 11:01:22 AM »

Glad you got it back up Matthew! I thought it something that was much worse, that CI might be down till "who knows when?"

Incredulous · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2016, 11:03:49 AM »

Good recovery job Matthew!

Those dirty Ruskies!

Desmond · « **Reply #3 on:** April 03, 2016, 11:37:59 AM »

Quote from: Incredulous

Good recovery job Matthew!

Those dirty Ruskies!

I bet the order came from Putin himself!

Prayerful · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2016, 12:31:30 PM »

Congrats Matthew.

My theory (not original mind) is that someone disgruntled with this forum engaged the services of a botnet. There is a certain defrocked priest who has associated himself with Tradition, after a record of associating himself with children. Rather than open a topic and debate, they try to destroy or at least harass the site. Thanks also for the headsup about the host. They seem poor.

Croix de Fer · « **Reply #5 on:** April 03, 2016, 12:33:32 PM »

It appears an entity doesn't appreciate some of the posts made by members here on CathInfo, and they're trying to stop readership of the posts and future posts alluding to the very subject(s). They don't want their scheme exposed.

My top list of suspects:

1) *Bankersteins (employing rogue bio-engineers & virologists)
2) The Jєωιѕн Lobby network (AIPAC, SPLC, B'nai B'rith, et al)
3) The Vatican contracting some IT pros to sabotage CathInfo.
4) Menzingen is doing # 3.
5) Boston, KY hired some saboteurs to do #3.

* this entity is of Juden

Croix de Fer · « **Reply #6 on:** April 03, 2016, 12:43:10 PM »

Prayerful · « **Reply #7 on:** April 03, 2016, 01:03:44 PM »

Quote from: ascent

It appears an entity doesn't appreciate some of the posts made by members here on CathInfo, and they're trying to stop readership of the posts and future posts alluding to the very subject(s). They don't want their scheme exposed.

My top list of suspects:

1) *Bankersteins (employing rogue bio-engineers & virologists)
2) The Jєωιѕн Lobby network (AIPAC, SPLC, B'nai B'rith, et al)
3) The Vatican contracting some IT pros to sabotage CathInfo.
4) Menzingen is doing # 3.
5) Boston, KY hired some saboteurs to do #3.

* this entity is of Juden

Is Boston, KY the home base of the defrocked Novus Ordo nonce who associated himself with Fr Pfeiffer? I cannot shake the belief he (the defrocked priest) hired a botnet.

McCork · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2016, 02:11:56 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

At any rate, I don't have much time left after that little adventure.

I spent a lot of time Saturday optimizing the site, and waiting on the computer/phone with my webhost, Hostgator.

They wanted to blame me/CathInfo rather than the attacker for some reason. They kept treating it as a normal "traffic overage" issue, and they have to protect the other accounts on the server, yadda yadda.

I understand the other accounts don't deserve to be affected. BUT -- why not re-enable CathInfo once the latest attacker IPs have been dealt with? Why cause CathInfo to be down for hours unnecessarily? The tech support man who dealt with the latest attack wave knew what he was doing. He knew it was dealt with -- and yet he didn't have the authority to re-enable the site. Sounds like I need to find a better webhost. By the way, my host is HOSTGATOR. I do not recommend them. If I had more time, I'd work on switching hosts.

But right now it's Sunday, and that means time to get ready to host Mass here again. Things need to be prepared and cleaned, and we have High Mass and potluck today (1st Sunday of the month), so there's some extra preparation there.

I had once worked for years in support for a major web hosting company. If you have "shared" hosting (which you do), and your site negatively affects the other sites on that server, then your site will immediately be suspended for the good of the other customers. Shared hosting is rather cheap and you get what you pay for. When it comes to DDoS, it's not something they can do much about; it's a thing you often just have to wait to blow over. A DDoS is not a "denial of service", it is a "DISTRIBUTED denial of service". Quite a different animal. Blocking IPs can mitigate it, but won't solve it.

Matthew has said he gets a pittance from running this site, so....is it really much of an emergency to be down a few days? I mean, is there really some crucial "Resistance" information people would miss?

JezusDeKoning · « **Reply #9 on:** April 03, 2016, 03:17:35 PM »

Could be someone from Boston, KY using a VPN/Tor server with a Russian IP address... They're like candy in this day and age.

Nadir · « **Reply #10 on:** April 03, 2016, 03:59:51 PM »

McCork:

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Matthew has said he gets a pittance from running this site, so....is it really much of an emergency to be down a few days? I mean, is there really some crucial "Resistance" information people would miss?

I rarely go near Resistance threads, but nevertheless I did miss CathInfo while it was down.
I was just wondering the day before just how long CathInfo could go on. Lo and behold....

Thank you, Matthew, for getting up and running so quickly and for all your hard work. I thought it might be the end.

Incredulous · « **Reply #11 on:** April 03, 2016, 07:08:45 PM »

Quote from: ascent

This is the best post you ever made!

Incredulous · « **Reply #12 on:** April 03, 2016, 07:30:46 PM »

Quote from: Prayerful

Quote from: ascent
It appears an entity doesn't appreciate some of the posts made by members here on CathInfo, and they're trying to stop readership of the posts and future posts alluding to the very subject(s). They don't want their scheme exposed.

My top list of suspects:

1) *Bankersteins (employing rogue bio-engineers & virologists)
2) The Jєωιѕн Lobby network (AIPAC, SPLC, B'nai B'rith, et al)
3) The Vatican contracting some IT pros to sabotage CathInfo.
4) Menzingen is doing # 3.
5) Boston, KY hired some saboteurs to do #3.

* this entity is of Juden

Is Boston, KY the home base of the defrocked Novus Ordo nonce who associated himself with Fr Pfeiffer? I cannot shake the belief he (the defrocked priest) hired a botnet.

Oh, you Americans call it "Botnet" ?

This is much easier to say than "gemietet webseite Radiergummi"

Or "Hired website eraser".

Mark 79 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 03, 2016, 07:35:45 PM »

A solution?

https://www.orangewebsite.com/ddos-protection.php?currency=USD

Croix de Fer · « **Reply #14 on:** April 05, 2016, 08:10:38 AM »

Quote from: Incredulous

Quote from: ascent

This is the best post you ever made!

Apparently, somebody disagrees with you because it was deleted. :scratchchin: