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Problem logging onto BBO and Forums Tuesday evening June 18

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Posted 2013-June-19, 15:00

Did anyone else have any problem logging on to BBO and the Forums on the evening of Tuesday, June 18, at about 10:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York Time)?

I got onto the sites later - about 11:30 pm - but did not see any announcement about any problems.

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Posted 2013-June-20, 09:00

Our web hosting provider was under a DoS attack that evening.

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Posted 2013-June-20, 09:44

Thanks for the info.
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Posted 2013-June-20, 10:01

What is a DoS attack? Disruption of Service, Dreadful online Service, Degrading our Service?
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Posted 2013-June-20, 11:10

Denial of Service. Usually accomplished by having a massive number of computers trying to log in at the same time to prevent others from doing so.
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Posted 2013-June-20, 21:14

(Technically that's a DDoS with an extra "D" for "distributed", but nobody does the old-fashioned version anymore)
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