Distributed Denial of Service attack.
| | | quote | | A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic. |
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So what I see happening is that all of a sudden, hundreds and hundreds of machines are simultaneously retrieving pages from PFF. Now PFF isn't hosted on some huge network of servers, but on a single server. It should be able to handle normal traffic just fine, but hundreds of requests simultaneously is a bit much for it. It will slow down to a halt and eventually crash. Fortunately I am able to restart the server remotely, even power cycle it remotely if needed. In the past I needed to make a 1.5 hour trip just to reset the server...
