Videokarma servers swamped?

[Tube TV]

Wow it's great to be back. Thanks to everyone behind the scenes keeping this place running.

[jhalphen]

Hi to all,

"Thank you Grumpy and Wardsweb for bringing Videokarma back to life!"

it would be wise to have direct Mail addresses for these two gentlemen in case internet mischief happens again.

Any possibility to increase the size of jpg/bmp/pdf attachments to attain the convenience of more recent forum engines?
increase in number of pixels and file size would be great.

A backup of the entire site as of today for read-only access.
Would the ETF be willing to host?

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France

[mbates14]

Another thing for the future is getting SSL up and going, as well as moving the server through a service such as Cloudflare.

Services like Cloudflare have mitigations for these types of attacks built-in. Perfect? No but its better than taking on the load of opsec yourself.

[luRaichu]

Videokarma already serves over TLS/HTTPS, but the webserver is not configured to redirect HTTP -> HTTPS

[DavGoodlin]

As an IT troglodyte, yet electronic engineer by profession, I am grateful for this site. Thank you Grumpy and Co for your diligent efforts to get us back in!!

[Walnut2]

Some recent posts by Ms Grumpy on AudioKarma regarding VideoKarma, including a current link for donating via PayPal:

https://audiokarma.org/forums/index..../post-17985030

Originally Posted by Ms Grumpy

You are not being ignored. We are reading and listening. There is a link below that will take you to AK Charities and Christmas. In that thread you will find a post that says Videokarma. In that post you will find a link if you would like to help with the work needed on Videokarma.

https://audiokarma.org/forums/index....karma.1093991/

Originally Posted by Ms Grumpy

If you would like to help Videokarma you can click on the link below. Paypal please.

Thank you for your support.

https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/KDGUCVQWSMC9L

Originally Posted by Ms Grumpy

One of the main issues that VK has been having is that it has been bombarded by bots and overloading our server. Because of the overload, whenever anyone went to the main page it would say something to the effect "Server is busy, try again later". Sometimes it was hit with up to 1,600% more than we are alloted on the server for the site. We have implemented some things and are looking at upgrading the software to help with this as well as just making the site more current.

[Wardsweb]

The 503 server is busy is the result of some high volume attacks on the site. We are working with our hosting company to block these.

[old_tv_nut]

Thanks for all your work!

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Thanks for all your work!

Ditto.

[Alex KL-1]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Thanks for all your work!

Ditto.

[electronjohn]

What happened to VK classifieds and "found curbside"?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by electronjohn

What happened to VK classifieds and "found curbside"?

You have to be logged in for those to be visible. If you only log in when writing a post, or don't have the keep me logged in box checked when you log it that could explain it.

[electronjohn]

Ah-ha!!

[etype2]

Thank you.

[Doug]

They are both there for me