IPS Company Forums 403 Forbidden Error

[Lindy]

An IPB traffic flood controller of sorts? That could help with minor issues... if you had something on the level that we're experiencing, it wouldn't do a lot of good. We're surviving primarily because there's hardware on the network end doing filtering, then, of course, our beloved server-side functions. :)

Personally, I'd like to see the Internet ever-so-slightly less anonymous to make people more accountable for their actions. If these kids were outside of a brick and mortar establishment throwing rocks through windows, they'd be arrested. Since they hide behind a computer screen, they're free. Any site, big or small, Microsoft or Ann Smith's House of Scrapbooking are vulnerable and have been brought down at one point or another. There's something wrong with that.

End rant of the evening. :)

[Cool Surfer]

It happened to me one day for many hours, all I could do was
ddAs this forum by hitting refresh :lol:

just wishing that it would start working.

[riven3d]

just happened to me for the first time, and it was the first page i tried to load

[sully]

I dont see it as a huge problem. Surley to god you can all bare with having only one tab open for reading and replying to topics? Its really not that hard, I do it all the time! I dont need a few IPS Comm Forum tabs open to let me browse properly. Why cant everyone else? IPS have no choice to introduce meassures to prevent the forums going offline, and unfortuantely it hits those who refresh the site a lot or open the site in several tabs.

As Lindy said:- Which do you want, the forums down completely due to DoSers getting the advantage or not being able to have several tabs of IPS Forums open? :D

[riven3d]

i dont use tabs, as i said i got it upon just trying to view 1 topic on 1 page

[Brandon C]

i dont use tabs, as i said i got it upon just trying to view 1 topic on 1 page

Same here, I don't use tabs and still got it and wasn't even doing 10 clicks that fast, either. :ermm: