www.Arowanaclub.ca is under attack

About an hour ago, our monitoring systems alerted us to a very high load on the web server hosting arowanaclub.ca. After investigating the issue, we determined that your site was experiencing a HUGE influx of traffic. You can actually see this number at the bottom of your forums - Most users ever online was 4,181 Today at 5:35 PM.

To protect other customers on the server, we were forced to temporarily suspend your account until the traffic stopped. We are seeing this happen a lot lately with vBulletin forums and it appears to be some sort of botnet scanning for vulnerabilities in the software. After about an hour of hammering your site, the traffic disappeared and we were able to bring your site live again.

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No. This was literally just 5000 machines loading your site at once. It's very odd but we are seeing this same pattern on many vb installations right now.... You're not the only one

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Unfortunately, we had to suspend it again as the attack continued. At this point, we must do a 12 hour suspension in order to ensure other customer sites aren't affected.

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Not likely. Normally I would say yes, but over the past several weeks, we've seen this happen on almost two dozen VB sites. Thousands of users (From Russia, mainly) flood the site for several hours, then disappear. From what we've been able to figure out, it's either a poorly programmed search engine attempting to index the entire site at once or it's an exploit scanner.

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This morning we unsuspended your account after the 12 hour suspension and almost immediately your site again became overwhelmed with requests. Per our AUP, we must now suspend the site for 48 hours.

There is unfortunately nothing we can do to work around this problem, as unsuspending your account has an immediate effect on the other sites hosted on this server due to the huge load that it receives.

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