Website frequently sluggish and unreachable!

Hate to say this, but - for me - the last week or two the website has become rather sluggish and even unreachable at times, and I have the feeling it is getting worse. Anyone else experience this?

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: That's because we've got hit by warez traffic.

You mean traffic from cracked versions of FF?

Or did the servers get hacked?

Do site problems occur in a specific time (like early morning or late evening in CDT) or do they occur everytime you visit the site no matter what time is it now?

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: A lot of warez sites posted write-ups about FF with direct links to the site and the download.

So that's why some filter download counts are skyrocketing!

If I'm not mistaken, many of the most popular filters (including some of mine) have gained at least 30-50 downloads in comparison to yesterday. That's pretty high for a day from my experience, so I was kind of wondering what was going on...

That were the database optimization procedures. Sorry for inconvenience

It's starting to get sluggish again right now...

Yup, it's ok now.

been fine for me all day today.

Those warez guys probably mass-downloaded the complete filter library...

warez is pirated software/music/videos etc. google the name and you'll get tons of hits. just beware that this is virus country and is blatant copyright infringement.

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Pronounced wayrz or wayrss. Commercial software that has been pirated and made available to the public via an electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS) or the Internet. Typically, the pirate has figured out a way to de-activate the copy-protection or registration scheme used by the software. Note that the use and distribution of warez software is illegal. In contrast, shareware and freeware may be freely copied and distributed. www.cscic.state.ny.us/msisac/webcasts/6_04/6_22_terms.htm

wouldnt really matter much. it's the old story of 'locks only keep out the honest'. that sounds a bit apathetic or cynical, i know, but the simple fact is, i've yet to see ANY software that cant be cracked. so, anti-crack software mostly just hurts the honest, especially when it gets really 'strong'. the best case i know of of this is in game software where the copy protection got so 'robust' that you couldnt even install a legitimate copy.

Ultimately, one single legit user, could easily download all the filters, and new ones as they got posted, and re-post them around online in various ways, especially since each filter file is so tiny in size. I haven't looked lately, but FF was on emule as of a month or so ago, I didn't grab it to check and see if they had packed the library with it, but it didn't look quite big enough (filesize) for that. Sucks that they can crash the site and/or tie up legit traffic and steal directly, but maybe that can be stopped somehow I wish the FF team nothing but luck of course, I just hope it doesn't cause them too many problems, or waste too much of their time, as that's the best one can sometimes hope for in cases as such.

jffe

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Crapadilla wrote: Those warez guys probably mass-downloaded the complete filter library...

Some of them tried to mass-download .ffcmd files

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Some of them tried to mass-download .ffcmd files

I wish there were "some"!

Many!!!

Torley -- we've relaxed the hit limit, should work fine now.

That were the database maintenance procedures.