I have been pressing refresh for the last 2+ hours and I am not having any luck after a whole weekend of no Steeming! I'm hearing word about a 'DDOS attack'?... I am certainly no tech expert so I googled it and I am not so stoked about what I read! Who wants to weigh in on this?
A distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such an attack is often the result of multiple compromised systems (for example, a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic.
This is what I get when I try to access my account on Steemit.com. I'm sure I'm not going to be the only one to say it but, I don't like being unable to get onto my account! It's a nightmare as far as I am concerned, especially after I haven't been on all weekend- I have so much I want to read, and see and it's not loading! Think of all the posts I am not seeing... it's horrible! What is going on? I have 90 million questions coming to mind...
Luckily for me, I know another way in! Busy.org has always been there for me! I wrote a post, here way back when I first got on our friendly blockchain as a user review of the social-media like platform. At the time no one I asked knew about it, and I was hesitant to use a new platform that I didn't understand so I spent a looong time researching it before I decided to share it with all of you! While Busy and Steemit are each children of the parent, Steem, they operate separately so, it seems at least on my end that Busy is still kicking while Steemit... not so much.
I am just curious if others are getting locked out too and if so (you wouldn't be able to read this) but if somehow you do end up seeing this, I recommend checking out Busy, it works with your pre-existing Steem account since it's all on the same blockchain so you just need to authorize it access and you can be back online in no time!
But what does this mean for our accounts? Are there risks? Will it be back up and running? Does this compromise the platform's security?
I truly hope whatever is happening, doesn't disrupt Steemit activity too much, I have loved my weekend away but am really excited to be back and able to connect with you all! Steemit is such a warm, welcoming, encouraging community and while I am happy knowing I can be here on Busy.org, I know not everyone knows about it :(
Please comment and connect with me if you're more technical than I and know what's going on ;)
I have some problem last week on Friday.
But tonight after few hours works well.
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I had a similar problem last two days,but as you already can tell I can access the site now. About busy.org,if I make a post there, will it be registered on my blog on steemit or is busy.org a whole different site
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Hi, I posted this from Busy and as you can see it just transfered over no problem! :)
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Nice post and good information @heart-to-heart
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Hmm it's a bad thing. It's been a while ago.
Btw I resteem Your Post..
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I can't access steemit either.
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I mention using Busy.org in my post and that's how I was even able to post this in the first place ;) but thank you!
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Yeah there have been problems for the last several days, even now sometimes my upvotes and comments are not going through. Growing pains I am hoping. Better now than in the future when there are millions of steemians out there
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official steemit twitter account confirmed the DDOS attack. Steemit is very nice platform, what do bad people want :( ?
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I've experienced problems three times in the last few days, including today for a couple of hours.
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I've had problems all day accessing and using Steemit.com. At one point I started getting a "Bad Gateway" message but things are noticably slower. Not sure what is going on either but it certainly isn't just you,
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It seems I will be looking into busy.com, as it's Friday the 13th and I get this loading loop which never loads...
Steemit is still a little wobbly from the recent 'attack'.
It's not helping my cautious optimism a whole lot; but, I will remain so, cautiously.
Peace.
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steemit may be under attack
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Hmmm strange that it is still doing this for you. I had issues on Friday but everything is okay now.
You could use eSteem?
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It was fucking up for me too 2 days ago, and also 2 hours ago.
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Thanks for mentioning busy, I never heard of it yet.. I hope Steemit corrects these attacks or problems.
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@roadscape?
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Please give my vote,comment
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NICE POST
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