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[Dave]

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

If you tried browsing the site in the last 2 hours you might have received the error:

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Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Apache Server at www.wildfireclan.co.uk Port 80

Apologies about that, I haven't been monitoring our usage lately, but I have increased the self imposed limit to twice the amount previously set. (So don't worry we have lots of bandwidth left, in fact we have actually used 1.47% of our real bandwidth limit, high limit )

[wasti]

Heh, nice I thought so, lol, stingray woke me up to tell me that we got hacked, i was like, um no way lol

[ThInK]

haha yea i was wondering what was wrong

[Dave]

Could have been worse, got have not checked my email or visited the site till tomorrow

The reason why I set a limit is to prevent attacks against the site, so in the event someone attacks it (not hacks) using methods I won't disclose, they would eventually use the preset limit, and get the error, this way saving the actual server from hitting any limits, but I might have set it too low (Did set it 1 year ago mind you).

But there we go, it's shows this site is getting more and more popular

[wasti]

thought so... soon wf will take over the world

[jimbob]

what should i say?

[Semph]

you sould say "yayy forums up running again"

was starting wonder why the site was down.. Sloppy spammed too much? xD

[eagleye]

lol i just made a new topic about this..........

[twizzler]

ok thank you!

[TheVillain?]

Couldnt of come at a worse time for me. I was sitting in my ICT class getting very bored, so i usually play in the arcade when the lesson drags, which like usual it was but i couldnt get in.....spent an hour staring out the window

[Semph]

TheVillain?, on Mar 28 2007, 09:42 PM, said:

Couldnt of come at a worse time for me. I was sitting in my ICT class getting very bored, so i usually play in the arcade when the lesson drags, which like usual it was but i couldnt get in.....spent an hour staring out the window

lucky you.. did you see something nice?

[TheVillain?]

Pigeons and seagulls manly

[Semph]

no unicorns??

[Hawk]

TheVillain?, on Mar 28 2007, 03:42 PM, said:

Couldnt of come at a worse time for me. I was sitting in my ICT class getting very bored, so i usually play in the arcade when the lesson drags, which like usual it was but i couldnt get in.....spent an hour staring out the window

thats usually my german lesson... the great outdoors

[Celtic]

Woo! MORE POWER!!! >: D

[Snowman]

wasti, on Mar 28 2007, 11:23 AM, said:

Heh, nice I thought so, lol, stingray woke me up to tell me that we got hacked, i was like, um no way lol

LOL, what time was it?

Thanks for fixing the site Dave and Alex! (thats a really high bw limit) :ph344:

[jaZ]

lol i never had any problems. oh well maybe ill get more involved with our site's problems next time.

[ThInK]

TheVillain?, on Mar 28 2007, 02:52 PM, said:

Pigeons and seagulls manly

come on all u saw were sheep in a field with hills

[wasti]

he woke me up at noon i just got to bed at 6 too, im so tired now

[twizzler]

yeah i have experienced it before!

[TheVillain?]

ThInK, on Mar 28 2007, 11:24 PM, said:

come on all u saw were sheep in a field with hills

Lol i saw you dressed up as a sheep too

[Alex]

Oh please please tell me you didnt bend him over like the other sheep :S

[wasti]

really, i dont want to know what he did with the sheep, im just going to go over there > and um, yea, im not coming back over here near you two

lol

[TheVillain?]

Alex, on Mar 29 2007, 07:45 PM, said:

Oh please please tell me you didnt bend him over like the other sheep :S

I tryed to sneak out the window but the teacher saw me

[Alteran Ancient]

That's funny, because I myself had my site go down today because the Bandwidth limit was exceeded. Again, this is just a self-imposed one to prevent DDoS, attacks and such, and it was merely a matter of paying a visit to WHM and bumping up my Limit from 4000MB to 6000MB.

Strange that, huh?

[Alex]

If you'd told us a few months ago when we moved to our new shiny server that we would be using this much bandwidth JUST on forums, we wouldn't have believed you! I can remember the good old days when we only used 6-7 gb a month, luckily we are our own masters

[Dave]

Alteran Ancient, on Mar 30 2007, 06:17 PM, said:

That's funny, because I myself had my site go down today because the Bandwidth limit was exceeded. Again, this is just a self-imposed one to prevent DDoS, attacks and such, and it was merely a matter of paying a visit to WHM and bumping up my Limit from 4000MB to 6000MB.

Strange that, huh?

Again another coincidence... odd ¬_¬

[Yahan Mapper]

i toll phoblia that our website was like hack our the bandwith.. lucky it wasn't hacked like the people at fragfm.co.uk