(11-06-2023, 04:49 PM)Ninurta Wrote: I'm still in the dark as to what happened myself. I spent several hours in chat with the hosting provider last night, waiting for a response that never came. So, I went to bed. Got up 4 hours later, and it's working again. All I've gotten so far is an e-mail that says "the Site is responding again. please check", with still no explanation yet. I'm back on hat with them now, asked what happened, and am waiting on a response again.
and waiting...
and waiting...
So I've no idea what happened yet.
The initial outage was down to an "htaccess" file in the site that was blocking access and returning a database error, so the htaccess file was name-changed to stop interfering, but this outage was different in that the internet couldn't even find the site, so I'm still waiting to hear what the problem was. I even went so far as to check the domain registration with ICANN, and everything was good there, so I dunno yet.
The site is "safe", at least as safe as anywhere else on the internet. About all the can get here would be your registration e-mail address to spam it up, and I've not noticed mine getting spammed yet. You don't really leave any retrievable tracks here other than that, so You're still safe here. Just make sure you're using a different password here from your e-mail password, and you'll be fine.
Will update as/if I get more information.
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Thank you!
So weird how the internet couldn't find the site at all. It was if it just disappeared. I'm not sure I've seen that before. I wasn't getting any error codes. It just never connected to the site. As if the entire "cord" had been cut.
(11-06-2023, 04:47 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: I just figured it was a DDOS attack, possible not even aimed at RN but at the host site. I mean, all the "too big to fail" banks were FUBAR all weekend (may still be for all I know, I just woke up). We were warned there would be cyber attacks from Iran- I just happen to think they're coming from our own government and they're blaming the "other guys".
Good point about the banks having issues as well. I noticed a lot of banks having late deposit problems over the weekend.