gdcproject.org is down

[Iain Buclaw via D.gnu]

On 27 December 2015 at 18:11, Vladimir Panteleev via D.gnu <
d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 12:51:21 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
>> On 27 December 2015 at 10:40, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 27 December 2015 at 07:42, Vladimir Panteleev via D.gnu <
>>> d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://gdcproject.org/ seems to be currently inaccessible worldwide.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, it's back online now in the last 20 minutes.
>>>
>>> Graphs seem to suggest network outage between 5.10am and 9.20am GMT.
>>> I'll raise a ticket to see what happened, other than that the
>>> server/services intact. 107 days, 9 hours, 50 minutes uptime. :-)
>>>
>>
>> I've been told that the provider was hit by a large DoS attack in their
>> London DC this morning.  At this time I've been told that it has been fully
>> mitigated, and network connectivity has returned to normal.
>>
>
> Thanks :)
>
> If it's not too hard, it would be nice to have some download mirrors, as I
> understand the website has been down before. Although the web pages were
> still available in Google's cache, the downloads weren't. I can set up a
> mirror on my server if you like.
>
> You might also look into using CloudFlare (it has a free plan), it will
> cache and display the last seen version automatically if the website is
> down.
>
>
Not for the last four months or so... :-p

This is a completely irregular thing to happen.  And any scheduled downtime
I'm normally alerted in a timely manner to notify about here.
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