Temporary outage 4am to 6am AU time

[hutch--]

Sorry for any inconvenience, appeared to be a host problem.

[dedndave]

Ray broke it - lol
(he was the last to post before it went down   :P )

[hutch--]

Second time around the problem was upstream from my server so I am happy there was nothing wrong at the server end. Hoping there will not be a third, I don't really need to be doing diagnostics between 3:30 and 6 am.

[raymond]

Ray broke it - lol
(he was the last to post before it went down)

I was wondering why I couldn't get back to the site after the post. So I kept blaming Win10 like I do every time any other program simply stops working for no apparent reason and rebooted the computer.

When I eventually tried getting to the site again a few hours later, it came in fine. My assumption that Win10 was responsible was reinforced but, as my signature maintains, it was still an assumption!!!

[dedndave]

we can't blame Ray for the second one   ;)

[hutch--]

After getting a full night's sleep, it seems the provider has solved the problem. As far as I can gather the problem was a large scale DDOS attack higher up the node that this server is on as I gather that some of the very large sites are on the same node.

[dedndave]

we really can't complain much   

a little sluggish, sometimes, but usually online (probably well over 99%)