In article <***@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
Dr Peter Young <***@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
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News seems to be working, and here I can send but not collect mail, and,
as Adrian says, none of the Orpheus sites will come though. All other
sites working, as far as I can tell.
And, of course, we can't see the status page. :-(
The status page is also mirrored on my own server at
http://www.vigay.com/orpheus/ - for emergency use.
Unfortunately, I don't go out of the office hardly at all, but the one time
I pop out for a couple of hours you can guarantee things will go wrong five
minutes later.
It looks like we suffered a sustained denial of service attack from
spammers - our servers are currently battling with having 150,000 spam
messages sent to them every day! :-(
Unfortunately, the primary mail server decided that it wanted to
temporarily have a rest and decided to shut off some of the services!
I'm currently looking to invest in some more servers (which is a pain
because it's an expense I could have done without!) which will divide the
load and also avoid the web server getting overloaded as a knock-on effect
of the mail server getting overloaded.
In the meantime, I'm closely monitoring the servers and keeping an eye on
things - and I'm not intending to leave the office much!
Apologies for the unexpected downtime, but it looks like it only lasted a
couple of hours - according to my monitoring log here, it looked like it
died at 2.22pm and I got back into the office at 4pm and fixed everything