We are back... as always!

[Marcel]

Great to hear. This community cannot be broken

[Mikal]

Nothing can break Argonath, we're such a big community!

Hammers, hammers break everything.

[bobby65]

After the DDOS attack on our server proved to become ineffective, the attackers decided it was a good idea to take out the website.

Ineffective ?
You had to create a new I.P..
Players couldn't play on the server for hours..

.. and you call this ineffective ?

Plus, who really thinks here that the hacker who did this did it on purpose to take down once for good Argonath ?
Unless he's a real cunt, he knows he can't. Cause there's always gonna be a solution to bring it back. Such as new I.P.

So, instead of watching too much war movies, with "epic quotes", better focus on the security problems sometimes.
Cause it's not a victory that someone took down the server for many days.

[Devin]

Was data lost? No
Was data corrupted? No
Does it matter if the server wasn't usable for a few hours? No
And the IP change was done to restore the servers so users could play on them whilst the "children" were playing with their scripts/programs to cause trouble with the regular IP.

[Marcel]

Ineffective ?
You had to create a new I.P..
Players couldn't play on the server for hours..

.. and you call this ineffective ?

Plus, who really thinks here that the hacker who did this did it on purpose to take down once for good Argonath ?
Unless he's a real cunt, he knows he can't. Cause there's always gonna be a solution to bring it back. Such as new I.P.

So, instead of watching too much war movies, with "epic quotes", better focus on the security problems sometimes.
Cause it's not a victory that someone took down the server for many days.

It completely comes down to risk management. If Argonath needs to close for two days in case of emergency, then that's okay. There has been no breach, no corruption and no loss of data. It's very simple, impact times probability.

Yes, the attack was ineffective. Why? Because the community has not been broken down. We are still here. Our data is still here.

Now please report to your nearest hooker in-game and enjoy the service!  :banana:

[SugarD]

Hammers, hammers break everything.

We have much larger hammers that smash their hammers! Muahahahahaha!!!

[Rusty]

in the faces of these pathetic "hackers" attempts to bring down this community.
Many times is that now, that they've failed?  Must be quite a few now.

[Mikal]

We have much larger hammers that smash their hammers! Muahahahahaha!!!

Yes heres how Scottish people use a ban hammer.

in the faces of these pathetic "hackers" attempts to bring down this community.
Many times is that now, that they've failed?  Must be quite a few now.

Haha, Rusty is Scottish, what a coincidence!!

[Pingster]

What blows my mind is that Rusty has Scotland flag, while others have United Kingdom flag. Scotland claimed independence?:P

Good job though.

[SugarD]

What blows my mind is that Rusty has Scotland flag, while others have United Kingdom flag. Scotland claimed independence?:P

Good job though.

It is a country within the country, so to speak. The United Kingdom is an oddball of sorts in explaining.

[Pingster]

It is a country within the country, so to speak. The United Kingdom is an oddball of sorts in explaining.

What I meant is, it's not "Scotland", "Wales", "England", "Northern Ireland", it's just "United Kingdom" and "Scotland" D:

[Boozman]

Glad to see everything back.

[Shejken]

Argonath ain't nothing to fuck with

[Ritcher]

Argonath ain't nothing to f**k with

[Gandalf]

Ineffective ?
You had to create a new I.P..
Players couldn't play on the server for hours..

.. and you call this ineffective ?

Plus, who really thinks here that the hacker who did this did it on purpose to take down once for good Argonath ?
Unless he's a real cunt, he knows he can't. Cause there's always gonna be a solution to bring it back. Such as new I.P.

So, instead of watching too much war movies, with "epic quotes", better focus on the security problems sometimes.
Cause it's not a victory that someone took down the server for many days.

We do things as needed. If we believe an attack is more than 24 hours, we change IP. If the website is attacked longer than a certain time, we divert it and split between .com and .eu.
A DDOS attack is something not even governments can fight against without diverting. So we do what can be done, showing that if the attackers think they are discouraging us they are wRONg.
The one smart thing the attackers do is keeping their head down and not boasting. That gives them a chance to return.