Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications Matt November 11, 2024Nov 11
January 18, 20241 yr Solution There are a lot of server errors lately. Generally when I'm experiencing server errors, they match slow response time peaks on the response time curve reported there: https://status.invisioncommunity.com/ - but the downtimes are not reported. I've been reporting my downtimes in the following topic: Edited January 18, 20241 yr by David N.
January 18, 20241 yr Author Ok. I do not love it but as long as it is not something wrong with my community I will roll with it.
January 18, 20241 yr Management We're sorry for any inconvenience. We have been hit with a run of large-scale Distributed Denial of Service attacks against a few customers that seemingly attracted a lot of negative attention. We are constantly improving our mitigation systems, but there are rare occasions when there's a delay while the system mitigates while minimizing disruption to legitimate traffic. Thank you for your patience and ongoing business.
January 18, 20241 yr Thank you Lindy. There was already a large scale DDoS attack on December 26 that resulted in several hours of downtime, so this is definitely a problem with Invision's Cloud hosting services. I understand the cloud use AWS, and I see that AWS has protection against DDoS: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/ - not sure if Invision is already using this service or not.
January 19, 20241 yr On 1/18/2024 at 3:10 PM, Lindy said: We're sorry for any inconvenience. We have been hit with a run of large-scale Distributed Denial of Service attacks against a few customers that seemingly attracted a lot of negative attention. We are constantly improving our mitigation systems, but there are rare occasions when there's a delay while the system mitigates while minimizing disruption to legitimate traffic. Thank you for your patience and ongoing business. Doesn't AWS have protocols in place to mitigate DDoS attacks and keep sites up?
January 20, 20241 yr No… not really. Especially not REAL DDoS attacks. Great for marketing hype… not overly useful in the real world. Edited January 20, 20241 yr by Randy Calvert
