We're Back

Someone out there doesn't like us. Who knows why. It could be a competitor trying to get our traffic, an RMT site ticked off that we keep banning their ads, or some kid with his panties in a knot because someone insulted him in the forums. Whatever the reason, someone is pushing a web of thousands of computers at us and trying to overload our servers. I've got news for whoever it is. We're not going away. Being down for a day just makes it all the more clear to us how much we appreciate our community.

We've upgraded our servers and switched to a bigger, more stable isp. There are more changes in the works as well. Whatever it takes to fight off this vile attack, we are willing to do it. We've also contacted the FBI and will file charges in whatever countries we need to in order to track this scumbag down. Whoever you are, you better hope you covered your tracks thoroughly.

This low life wants to shut us down and drive away our community. I'm going to ask you to do the exact opposite and really piss him off. Instead of going away like he wants, become more involved instead. Sign up for our premium service and counteract his attempt to cut off our revenue. Post links to our site on other forums and sites and make sure everyone knows who we are and what we offer. Become more active in our forums. Submit some kick ass news articles and guides. Edit our wiki pages to add better information. There are many ways you can demonstrate your support. We thank all of you for your efforts in keeping this site up and running.

Please sign up for our premium service and show your support.
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Yay
# Mar 06 2008 at 2:24 PM Rating: Decent
You don't know how happy I am that you're back online. My subscription just renewed a couple days ago. Hopefully those douche bags will get caught. Such a shame that people had to stoop so low to take down a web site.
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I know who it is!
# Mar 06 2008 at 2:21 PM Rating: Good
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I think it's gbaji... he's DOS'ing you, with simply sending every word he's ever posted here... ;o)
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# Mar 06 2008 at 11:34 AM Rating: Good
welcome back online! we looooove yooooooo
WB Alla
# Mar 06 2008 at 11:20 AM Rating: Excellent
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On the OP, it mentions putting this site onto other forums and such.

One good idea for that is allow premium members to link thier Sig they created on other sites!

I would use it :)
ACCOUNT FRAUD
# Mar 06 2008 at 9:56 AM Rating: Good
My World of Warcraft account at Silvermoon, EU has been stolen today. This MF and SOB is openly playing with my char in Shadow Labyrinth as I'm writing this post. I'm a Premium memeber here, at Ala. And I' am greatly satisfied with this service, really. But could it be that your premium acc database was hacked during the attack? I can't imagine any other way how this ugly bas-ds got my acc details. I'm not sharing it and I got decent security on my PC, including antivirus and firewall.

ANYWAYS, HERE IS MY ADVICE FOR EVERYONE AT ALA PREMIUM - CHECK YOUR ACCs AT WoW ASAP. CHANGE YOUR CURRENT PASSWORDS JUST TO BE SAFE ON THIS.

Edited, Mar 6th 2008 1:41pm by Fantlv

Edited, Mar 6th 2008 1:46pm by Fantlv
ACCOUNT FRAUD
# Mar 06 2008 at 11:05 AM Rating: Excellent
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No our servers were not hacked. The person who perpetrated the attack did not gain any access to our servers or our site in any way. The DDOS attack was an array of thousands of zombie computers that were directed towards our site and told to request pages from us as fast as they could. When our servers received a request for a page, they treated it just like they would treat your browser's request for an item or quest page and processed the request and sent the information. However, because they were receiving thousands of requests more than normal, they bogged down and died, much like your home computer would die if you were to launch 1,000 applications on it and try to use all of them at once. Even after we were able to filter out the false requests, they continues to come through and eventually our bandwidth provider cut us off because false or no, a request uses up bandwidth.
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# Mar 06 2008 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good
I don't post often, but I heard your plea for support and thought I would add my 2 cents.

I have been with you as a premium member for many years now going back to the days when I played EQ. We even met at the EQ Fanfaire in Boston.

I knew when you were "out of service" the first time for more than a couple hours that something just wasn't right. I also realized how much I missed the site when I couldn't get to it when I needed info on an item, quest etc.

It is good to hear that you are vigorously pursuing these lowlife scumbags and hopefully will catch up with them.

I have been with you and I will stay with you. Your site is A1.

Please keep us posted on your progress chasing these guys down. I'm sure the community would be interested in knowing how you are progressing.

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# Mar 06 2008 at 7:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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I was wondering why I couldn't get on. I think I want to get premium soon when I'm not broke I hope.
Thank you!
# Mar 05 2008 at 10:21 PM Rating: Excellent
I'm already a premium member, but I just want to post that I really appreciate the service you provide. You've been around for basically all the MMOs I've played and the information you provide is great! I am happy that even my first MMO (EQ), you guys are still providing information on everything and keeping it update. I recently came back to EQ and was happy to be able to find out about new quests and such.

Edited, Mar 5th 2008 10:25pm by Freydis
GO ALLA
# Mar 05 2008 at 8:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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I was having serious concerns about the problem. I had so many important things to look up without a source. FIGHT THOSE MOFOS AND KEEP KICKIN ***!
Support
# Mar 05 2008 at 8:02 PM Rating: Excellent
ALLAKHAZAM 4 EVER! Nail that ****** no lil puss will ever drive me away!
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# Mar 05 2008 at 7:33 PM Rating: Excellent
/clap, Glad your back =)

Edited, Mar 5th 2008 10:33pm by tralkar
#REDACTED, Posted: Mar 05 2008 at 1:47 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I can barely function in EQ without this site and I have a premium.
FBI
# Mar 05 2008 at 12:35 PM Rating: Excellent
First off ZOMG DARQ THAT AVATAR IS SCARY AND OWNS AT THE SAME TIME.

That aside, yeah I'm glad ya'll decided to get the FBI involved. I hope they give you better luck than the gaming place I used to work fore before they closed down (http://www.provinggrounds.com/ its just a placeholder website now). There we knew exactly who was attacking us, knew that he was mad at being banned for cheating (go figure), but he was skilled at what he did. The only time he ever contacted J or K was through using a zombie so they were never able to (as far as I knew, though I wasn't prone to all the info) track down his real IP. It was an ongoing occasional problem for the better part of a year, but then again I don't think we got as much traffic as this site gets, and I'm sure the FBI has gotten vast improvements in tracking down DDoSers in the last 5 years. Good luck to Alla, been using this site for forever (different accounts) and I love it.
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# Mar 05 2008 at 10:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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No gems!?!?!?
# Mar 05 2008 at 12:11 PM Rating: Excellent
That sucked that the site was down. I kept on trying to get on to look at your gem list. Allakhazam has the best gem list out of any of the WoW Database sites.

I ended up browsing through the competitor's crappy gem pages. =/
Don't Know What You Got...
# Mar 05 2008 at 12:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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'Till it's gone. I didn't realize how painful some of the other sites are, until Alla went down. You guys really do have a much better site than the other guys. As soon as the wife okays it, I'll upgrade to premium. In the meantime, let me say that I'm relieved you're back, and keep fighting the good fight.
Good to See You Again
# Mar 05 2008 at 11:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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Welcome Back and glad to see your still good on your end. Keep up the good work! Peace.
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# Mar 05 2008 at 11:18 AM Rating: Decent
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[CONSPIRACY]Alla created its own dos attack to drum up premium suscribers[/CONSPIRACY]
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# Mar 05 2008 at 11:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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Smiley: tinfoilhatLost traffic and Ad revenue for those days were replaced by machine elvesSmiley: tinfoilhat
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# Mar 05 2008 at 3:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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Danalog the Vengeful Programmer wrote:
Smiley: tinfoilhatLost traffic and Ad revenue for those days were replaced by machine elvesSmiley: tinfoilhat


I voted for gnomes or hamsters, but they're all busy elsewhere.
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# Mar 05 2008 at 11:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Funny, I must have missed the "we're going to ***** ourselves for the greater good" memo. Smiley: oyvey
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glad your back
# Mar 05 2008 at 10:21 AM Rating: Excellent
glad your back

now you fix that hidden menu thing you added - so it can show the menu again.
glad your back
# Mar 05 2008 at 10:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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Larth wrote:
glad your back

now you fix that hidden menu thing you added - so it can show the menu again.


What do you mean? Works fine for me.
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WB !!!
# Mar 05 2008 at 10:13 AM Rating: Excellent

I never realized how much I used this site(until I couldn't get on for a few days) , so I actually decided to register as a way of saying thanx...
and I hope the people responsible get what they deserve.
Keep going
# Mar 05 2008 at 9:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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My EQ life is so much more difficult when this site is down. Glad to have you back, keep up the good work :-)
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# Mar 05 2008 at 9:50 AM Rating: Excellent
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Welcome back, Alla!

As for who's doing it: For that much bandwidth being sent, it must be a zombified army of bots doing the DDOS attack. It being some kid with an issue - I'd say that's doubtful. The whole bot army thing is pretty big business (rent out 'bot networks to people with less than sterling reputations). Why send that much traffic to an MMO site unless it's money related?

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# Mar 05 2008 at 9:47 AM Rating: Excellent
*hugs* you show em I don't know if I could survive Eq without you!
Yay!
# Mar 05 2008 at 9:40 AM Rating: Excellent
Welcome back! I have missed you. Keep up the good work, and I hope you catch the *******(s).
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