Server Problems?

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer

More likely that the spammer was using the OB server to send out spam, thus using up the bandwidth that OB had available.

I agree, Marty didn't explain fully but from what he said and from my knowledge of how spammers operate, that was my assumption.

It doesn't mean they were spamming on the forum, (I've seen no sight of that as a moderator) but they were causing the server behind the scenes to have no resources left to run the website properly.

It seems good again this morning, so hopefully Marty has managed to stop them

[Leafmite]

Thanks for the update!

[lepetitmartien]

Well, happened to me in the last hour… so not terminated.

It may be more a DoS attack (load up the server with requests till it breaks). Big thanks to the webmaster as I know how sick and tiring it can be to protect the server and raise the defenses while it's happening.