Adverbux.com got bombed!

You may wonder why adverbux is gone, they seem to have been lagging pretty badly.. At first, I thought they were just having site maintenance, but to my horror, it's actually far worst than that.

Just recently, I got word from SeanyBob himself, the owner of Adverbux. He announced it on the Adverbux site and told us that the site had been under DOS (Denial of Service) attacked by still unknown suspects.

At first, Seanybob thought that it was nothing bad, just a large number of users on at the same time, but he found out just this morning that what actually was occurring was a crude DOS attack. The adverbux server was overloaded. In addition, once he got most of the services on the server restored, he found that the database had been badly corrupted, as have several of the backups that he stored on the server.

He further told us that such an attack could obviously had been planned well, and were instigated by skilled hackers.

Seanybob ordered a new server, which will be set up within a few days, depending on the company he got it from. He ensured that this server is many times more powerful than the previous server, strong enough to blunt such attacks. As for the database, he's currently trying to recover what files he can salvaged. He do have some several backups saved on his laptop, but unfortunately, they are not the most recent. He, however, promises to recover whatever information he can from the server. He said that all is not fully lost, and there are several more tricks he haven't tried yet. He may be able to recover the files from a couple of hours before the crash.