Ers

[McDiver]

I am finding that ers is very slow to access. Anyone else having problems?

 

[connor666]

Maybe all the constant mediocre micro ads are crashing their site.

 

[PlayfulAlex]

Guess they were having some problems earlier in the day...

https://perb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?170144-Anybody-else-having-issues-with-ERSLIST-today

Everything seems to be working fine now, though...

 

[LADY-VIA]

Its still off and on .. I got on fine earlier but noW i cant seem to get on ?? So im guessing they are still working out some kinks

 

[Robert Upndown]

If they are under a concentrated DDOS attack, it could be days, worst case weeks, before they recover completely. They have their hands full for sure

 

[Pillowtalk]

Distributed denial-of-service attack DDOS. Happens when a hacker or a number of hackers uses a multitude of compromised systems to attack a single target, causing a denial of service for users of the targeted system.

Think of it as a flood going to a single funnel. The flood of incoming messages to the targeted system shuts it down, overwhelms it's scaling ability completely. Thereby denying service to the system to legitimate users, hence Distributed denial-of-service

So, basically as mentioned, the flood of mediocre micro ads crashed the site.