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[Richardfrost]

Hello, fellow Soarvivers!

One of my favorite servers, located as a subdomain of: (Spoiler for no advertising)

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gamezgalaxy.com

has gone down for me, as well as the website (could not resolve hostname). As it is one of my favorite servers, I would like to know if the problem is just for me, or for anyone else. If you could either go to the above website (in  the spoiler) or the server

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smp.gamezgalaxy.com

, that would be very appreciated.

I know these sites are safe, but as always, make sure you have caution while browsing the internet. Thank you.

-Richardfrost

[TenPaces]

It is down for me too.

Here is one service which will do another check for you.

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downforeveryoneorjustme.com

[UthmanX]

Seem's down for me as well, I'd recommend the site TenPaces gave you, comes in handy.
It's most likely that the server's they use for hosting are down.

[BillyBoy64]

The web site is up, but the Minecraft server appears to be down.

From the web site:

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So that happened...

Sep 17 2012 04:10 AM | Lavo in Community

Hey Gamerz,

So what seems like the most longest downtime with the least amount of news possible must have left you wondering what the hell happened to us?

Well over the pass 30+ Hours our server was hit with a DDoS attack forcing our "host" (Datacenter) to null route all connections to the server. In English they disconnected our server from the internet.

We do not know who started DDoS, but we will be investigating.

Moving forward, Since all servers(Website/Minecraft/TF2) are hosted on one machine right now, taking down just this machine brought everything down. Which is a single point of failure. To prevent this in the future I am planning to start moving some dependent services off this machine and into different locations.

Such as moving the DNS server to another location so we can point the site at a different server and you will be able to connect to it again.

We are also planning to upgrade our server package so we can filter out DDoS Attacks however this is going to cost quite a lot.

And Finally, for all news even if the site is up or down. You can Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

~Lavo

[Richardfrost]

Thank you everyone for helping!
I can't access the report button on my iPod, so I'll request to lock it when I get computer access. Again, thank you all!

[MiniGrim]

Richardfrost, on 18 September 2012 - 04:44 AM, said:

Thank you everyone for helping!
I can't access the report button on my iPod, so I'll request to lock it when I get computer access. Again, thank you all!

Not sure of iPods have the "full version" option at the bottom of the webpage, but if it does, you could try using that to report it faster.

Anyways, locking at your request.