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Old 05-27-2025, 10:08 AM
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Boy last night was scary.. For several hours all I got was this message..... I emailed Dave and told him in case he didnt know.......


I noticed politicalchat.org was slow also........


Im glad things are ok now!!!

I love VK and politicalchat.org like crazy
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Old 07-21-2025, 07:42 AM
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How busy is "too busy"?
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Old 07-21-2025, 09:29 AM
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Yeah, a lot of times this message are displayed last days. "Server too busy".
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Old 07-21-2025, 04:33 PM
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DDoS attack.
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Old 07-22-2025, 08:46 AM
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It's still ongoing. Just got the message again. Yeesh.
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Old 07-22-2025, 01:59 PM
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Chinese and/ or Russian hackers.
We should cut these bastards off from the internet.
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Old 07-23-2025, 11:41 AM
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That would be a good thing!!
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Old 08-01-2025, 05:49 AM
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STILL an issue. All I get most of the time is "server is too busy" If it is kind enough to let me search... I hit a wall when trying to read the threads

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Old 08-02-2025, 08:21 AM
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If you can't get into VK, you might want to check out the CRT collective on FB. Mostly a bunch of gamers and enthusiasts and some technical people.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/444560212348840/
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Old 08-03-2025, 01:45 AM
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There is definitely an odd repeating pattern here, it has happened 3 days in a row now, same sequence of events, first at about 11-12 CST, the error "server is too busy" comes up constant, and won't clear no matter what you do for hours, then 5-6 hours later, 4-5 PM, things degrade to "database error" which will last until 1-2 am, then clear.

Then the entire thing starts over again at the exact time again the next day.
I highly expect it to do it again this Sunday.

so far, I have heard no word as to what is causing this.

I started a thread here on AK.
https://audiokarma.org/forums/index....ashed.1091056/
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Old 08-03-2025, 04:31 AM
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Hi to all,

outages probably caused by a mix of DDS attacks & massive "Bot" data mining.
In the last few days, between times when the forums were accessible & outages, the user count hovered around 40 thousand.

Look at the forum Stats below, vintage TV may be popular but i seriously doubt that the quoted maximum user connections (guests) were 60 thousand on august 1st 2025.

Bots are probably counted as users...

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Old 08-03-2025, 06:12 AM
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I could understand it if this was a government or corporate website but this is a hobby/ enthusiast website. So what is the point???
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Old 08-03-2025, 10:13 AM
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There has to be a way to stop these attacks from taking the site down, and it do believe they are attacks, as they are happening on a predictable basis now.
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Old 08-04-2025, 04:08 AM
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Hi to all,
Hi Yamamaya42,

One method is to identify the country or continent from which attacks or massive requests are coming and forbid anything coming from that area.

Two Radio/TV British sites i used to visit now do this to protect themselves (and i can't access anymore).

As a side question, who is the web Admin for VideoKarma?
it used to be Kamakiri but that was eons ago.

If we knew who's running this site, we could get some answers about the What/When/Who/How causes these periodical malfunctions and what strategies will be implemented to counter the threats.

Best Regards
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PS : from the EU, VK totally unreachable Sunday Aug 3rd 2025
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Old 08-04-2025, 07:31 AM
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Maybe some answers here:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/
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