The Forum went down this morning, for what is I believe the longest outage we’ve ever had. A bot was breaking our robots.txt and performing a miniature (unintentional) DOS attack on us. This was perfectly timed with an upgrade to our infrastructure that made it hard to diagnose what was going on. We eventually figured out what was going on and blocked the bot, and learned some lessons along the way. My apologies on behalf of the Forum team :(
The Forum went down this morning, for what is I believe the longest outage we’ve ever had. A bot was breaking our robots.txt and performing a miniature (unintentional) DOS attack on us. This was perfectly timed with an upgrade to our infrastructure that made it hard to diagnose what was going on. We eventually figured out what was going on and blocked the bot, and learned some lessons along the way. My apologies on behalf of the Forum team :(