Aether datacenter connectivity issues (July 3, 2017)

[deadcrow]

They say it's a "DDoS Attack" but it's not, it may actually be a DDoS but no one is attacking them, they're just using that for a BS excuse for their poor infrastructure and lack of planning for the amount of players accessing the servers.

DDoS = Dynamic/Distrubuted Denial of Service.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They say it's a "DDoS Attack" but it's not, it may actually be a DDoS but no one is attacking them, they're just using that for a BS excuse for their poor infrastructure and lack of planning for the amount of players accessing the servers.

DDoS = Dynamic Denial of Service.

except its not? DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service. And a DDoS attack will do exactly this. if it was people hammering the servers cuz playing, then the weekend would have been broken. it wasn't.

[deadcrow]

except its not? DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service. And a DDoS attack will do exactly this. if it was people hammering the servers cuz playing, then the weekend would have been broken. it wasn't.

It doesn't have to be a malicious attack though. Just the pure numbers of people like additional adults being off for the Holiday could pad the issue some. But who knows. It's all speculation anyways. The last time they announced a maintenance, roughly around the same time frame they "experienced" a "DDoS Attack". I just think it's the amount of people honestly.

[Lurkios]

They say it's a "DDoS Attack" but it's not, it may actually be a DDoS but no one is attacking them, they're just using that for a BS excuse for their poor infrastructure and lack of planning for the amount of players accessing the servers.

DDoS = Dynamic Denial of Service.

Distributed Denial of Service*

Our FC was discussing that awhile back, during the fiasco that was early access. DDoS, maybe, but what if it's not malicious, and it's just the players trying to login en masse? It's just wild paranoia and speculation, probably, but we've seen the servers can't handle floodgates.

Eh, I'll get the tinfoil hats out.

It wouldn't match up with what I've seen previously. We've had queues before with no connectivity issues. If that was the reason I'd expect it would always be a problem during queues, not just sometimes.