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-Elaine

Edit:  Dec 16, evening

The hard drive on the server failed. A new drive has been installed, and backups reinstated. Everything should be up and running now — but please let me know if anything is still awry for you.

The MySQL server’s down for anyone on Abaris server (that’s most folks). I’m on it and will keep you posted here.

edit: I just found out that SMTP (mail SENDing from yourdomain.com) seems to be affected as well, which is odd as they’re not in the least connected. I’ll look into that as well. POP3 (Mail receiving) is working fine.

edit: 3:46pm PST: MySQL is going up and down like a yo-yo. I’m still on it. Bugger.

edit: 6:34 pm: I’m getting a huge number of very different error messages from MySQL — but a few seem to tell the tale that we may be seeing a DOS attack, either accidental (a script gone wrong, querying the database over and over and over and over and over and over) or on purpose (a script written to go wrong, querying the database over and over and over and over and over and over). Watch this space for updates.

edit: 11:19pm: The database has settled somewhat, but is still blanking at intervals. We’re still working on it!

Resolved: The rogue script has been found and stomped upon. If you have any database troubles now, contact me, and I’ll investigate!

Right about now, the “signal” from my main hosting server is interrupted someplace between my ISP and the server farm, and it’s being dropped instead of re-routing. In layman’s terms, the phone line is frayed between here and there — and sadly, it’s not frayed in the place that I control.
I can’t FTP, collect email or access the sites I run without hideous proxy contortions. I have people on it, but if you’ve tried to reach me, that’s what’s up.

Watch this space.

-Elaine

DEC 3, morning — update

Everything seems to be  righted. A firewall at the server end had gone a bit rogue. It’s been soundly thumped, and should behave slightly better hereafter.