Hi all, about three weeks ago I got notified by my server host that 4 of my VM server in one of their regions (all running different applications on different OSes with different passwords) had been used as part of a targeted DDOS attack and thus had networking disabled. I am 99% sure they weren't actually hacked or anything after review, but something weird definitely happened.
In response I had to go through and re-create the servers that BU was hosted on. Rest assured this wasn't the site finally reaching its death, nor do I have any intention of letting the site die. As I've stated many times before, I am committed to keeping BU going as long as I feasibly can.
Unfortunately, the servers BU were running on were VMs where I'd done tons of custom configuration, and I also had to recover all the data from the servers so that none was lost which was pretty time consuming. However, I was finally able to get everything back.
I also took the opportunity to move the site to a bit beefier server to hopefully prevent all the database issues we were having previously. On top of that, I have created a fairly reproducible configuration for the server so if this ever happens again I will be able to rebuild the site much faster. And, lastly, I moved all my server resources into different datacenters with my host instead of localizing them all in one. Hopefully that will keep the site up better.
Needless to say, this site has been kicking for a long time and I'm not keen on witnessing it's death. Long live BeyondUnreal!
In response I had to go through and re-create the servers that BU was hosted on. Rest assured this wasn't the site finally reaching its death, nor do I have any intention of letting the site die. As I've stated many times before, I am committed to keeping BU going as long as I feasibly can.
Unfortunately, the servers BU were running on were VMs where I'd done tons of custom configuration, and I also had to recover all the data from the servers so that none was lost which was pretty time consuming. However, I was finally able to get everything back.
I also took the opportunity to move the site to a bit beefier server to hopefully prevent all the database issues we were having previously. On top of that, I have created a fairly reproducible configuration for the server so if this ever happens again I will be able to rebuild the site much faster. And, lastly, I moved all my server resources into different datacenters with my host instead of localizing them all in one. Hopefully that will keep the site up better.
Needless to say, this site has been kicking for a long time and I'm not keen on witnessing it's death. Long live BeyondUnreal!
