Is vBulletin.com down?

BlackStorm · Post #1 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 06:33 AM

Logged into the admin panel for the site and noticed it wasnt showing the latest version available, which it gets from vbulletin.com, then I checked the site and it seems to be down.

Really hope the DDoS attacks arent starting on them again!!

turnkey · Post #2 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 07:35 AM

Looks like it is down to me. I know how that feels to be DDoSed and it does suck.

BlackStorm · Post #3 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 07:43 AM

They have been down loads because of attacks, I think it was around Christmas they were down for weeks inside the one month.
I just remember there was a lot of downtime, hope thats not whats happening again

imported_Stephen · Post #4 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 08:44 AM

Yeah and they are still down now.
I havent seen anything anywhere about why its down either

BlackStorm · Post #5 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 08:50 AM

Seems www.vbulletin.org is also down..
Either they are both on the same server, maybe in the same DC which is having problems but it shouldnt be that bad, OR maybe both sites are getting attacked

imported_Rox Off · Post #6 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 09:37 AM

Hmm..I though vbulletin.org and vbulletin.com were at different DCs. Could be DDos, vB is a high target for that.

Francisco · Post #7 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 11:03 AM

Yep, it's down

~Francisco

imported_maxhest · Post #8 (**permalink**) 02-20-2004, 08:55 PM

Down to me.. :-/ Bad for business.. In my opinion..

GamesCreation · Post #9 (**permalink**) 02-21-2004, 04:41 AM

Vbulletintemplates.com is down too

Haddy · Post #10 (**permalink**) 02-22-2004, 08:49 AM

Looks A ok now...

Quote:

If you have tried to access vBulletin.com or any of the other official sites in the past 48 hours you will be aware that the server has been down since late on Thursday night.

Late on Thursday, an anomaly was detected in several services on the vBulletin server, which was affecting network throughput. The anomaly gradually became more detrimental to services and it was decided to reboot the server.

Unfortunately, the server failed to reboot sucessfully. Analysis from staff at our data center led to the conclusion that the server had suffered a fatal error, and a complete system rebuild would be necessary.

This rebuild was started as soon as our host could provide us with a clean server on which to work.

As you can see, the rebuild is now complete and we are back to fully operational status with a new hard drive array in the server. No data has been lost and we should be able to pick up exactly where we left off.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Chris Schreiber for his help in getting the server back up and running as soon as we have. His expertize have been invaluable.

We will keep you updated if we learn anything more about the error we encountered that brought the server down, but for now, thanks for bearing with us!

Kier

GordyMac · Post #11 (**permalink**) 02-22-2004, 08:51 AM

What else is new though guys?

imported_Stephen · Post #12 (**permalink**) 02-22-2004, 09:13 AM

vBulletin seems to have a lot of problems but guess there site is very active, still, I dont think they should be down so much, and not for that long anyway!