Network issues...
Many of you may have noticed we recently have been having some network issues with the web sites, irc servers and game servers.
The RunUO Team works extremely hard and spends a lot of money to maintain this large network and recently we've been the victim of several extremely large denial of service attacks.
These attacks have been large enough that they are taking down backbone links to our providers, and to their providers. In essence we have seen denial of service attacks ranging from 4 - 6 gigabits per second, which frankly would cripple most providers.
While we enjoy what we do here, and with our game servers, the last few weeks have made this a job, and no longer a fun hobby to work on. Every time our network is attacked it costs us a lot of money in bandwidth and or fees. With that said I am going to be calling a meeting of the RunUO Team to discuss the future of this project.
This is no longer a game, this is business affecting for OTHER customers at our provider and I cannot and will not let that happen for a hobby to stay online. I just cant fathom doing a 6 gigabit denial of service attack against someones network because one of their users was doing something I didn't like, or had something I wanted.... it's just not right.
To those of you doing the attacks gg you win.
To those of you who have supported RunUO and our other projects thanks.
I'll let you know what happens when we get a Development Team meeting in this week.
Many of you may have noticed we recently have been having some network issues with the web sites, irc servers and game servers.
The RunUO Team works extremely hard and spends a lot of money to maintain this large network and recently we've been the victim of several extremely large denial of service attacks.
These attacks have been large enough that they are taking down backbone links to our providers, and to their providers. In essence we have seen denial of service attacks ranging from 4 - 6 gigabits per second, which frankly would cripple most providers.
While we enjoy what we do here, and with our game servers, the last few weeks have made this a job, and no longer a fun hobby to work on. Every time our network is attacked it costs us a lot of money in bandwidth and or fees. With that said I am going to be calling a meeting of the RunUO Team to discuss the future of this project.
This is no longer a game, this is business affecting for OTHER customers at our provider and I cannot and will not let that happen for a hobby to stay online. I just cant fathom doing a 6 gigabit denial of service attack against someones network because one of their users was doing something I didn't like, or had something I wanted.... it's just not right.
To those of you doing the attacks gg you win.
To those of you who have supported RunUO and our other projects thanks.
I'll let you know what happens when we get a Development Team meeting in this week.