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mircea_popescu: i had this sort-of prepared, but not actually provisioned and ready because the shit is expensive
mircea_popescu: now, a humongo 10gb dedicated solution is being set up as we speak
mircea_popescu: you'd be nuked in half an hour or something, and it's just hassle.
mircea_popescu: i could allow anyone to start a proxy right now, the trade server is fine, etc. the problem is
mircea_popescu: if there's 9 left the remainder ddos is available to hit him
mircea_popescu: the thing with that system is that it works by division. if there's 100 of them there jurov can stay online.
mircea_popescu: but somebody did have the determination to spend a day and a half looking for them, setting up the ddosing for them individually bla bla.
mircea_popescu: granted, it's not easy to blow up a small shared setup like that.
mircea_popescu: since the attack started yesterday a total of 100+ of these were taken offline.
mircea_popescu: so at that time i split the tubes up north/east, and started a bunch of proxies
mircea_popescu: now, the reason admittedly was that the thing was a little old and kidna loaded. but still.
mircea_popescu: there were two more layers of routing to get to the router that handled the webservers.
mircea_popescu: the first time mpex was ddosed in january the attack took out the actual datacenter top level router.
mircea_popescu: there is five of them sharing two gigabit uplinks through a balancer.
mircea_popescu: if you look at it practically these webservers are practically proxies.
mircea_popescu: mpex consists of a trade server and webservers which the users talk to.
mircea_popescu: but to sum up the situation, cause i imagine many people are curious :
mircea_popescu: awww that poor dude was sending me crazed messages too.
mircea_popescu: at some point they were pasting half hour old trades out of order into the feed
mircea_popescu: and the cherry on top, Website performance is going to be the bane of many n00bs when it's time to sell
mircea_popescu: Gateway capacity trouble at Coinbase? Is anyone else having problems with Bitme deposits? Mt.Gox Payment system problem What the fuck Bitfinex? MtGox should halt trading when Order Lag time is this long. Anyone's bitfloor deposits working?
mircea_popescu: looking through the forum digests this is motherfucking sad
mircea_popescu: best i can make out you're a concern troll with a checkered past.
mircea_popescu: you literally have no idea what you are talking about.
mircea_popescu: but it does not belong in technology. technology is for smart people.
mircea_popescu: this sort of internecine bullshit may be appropriate in fringe churches of weird and other midwestern concerns
mircea_popescu: if there were 1mn users drawn to bitcoin because of satoshi dice, they'd just run piuk's wallet into the ground, and you'd whine about how "blockchain is spamming the network"
mircea_popescu: hahaha, if you think retail users will run that braindamaged abomination called "the bitcoin client" you're off your rocker.
mircea_popescu: i can make 1mn txs right now, you won't be able to produce an accurate usercount.
mircea_popescu: 1M user with 1000 tx/sec is easier than 10 users with 1000 tx/sec <<< you can't even distinguish users apart.
mircea_popescu: this wouldn't be by any chance related to the girl bitchslapping that hearn muppet earlier, would it ?
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr dude, still with this ? sd is the only thing happening on bitcoin, forget about it already.
mircea_popescu: do you mind that it's called Luke-Jr or whatever else ?
mircea_popescu: what difference does it make to you tho ? there's going to be an onion in any soup
mircea_popescu: going out of your way to politically rate people... meh. not so much.
mircea_popescu: i knew then that it's not the freaking government that'll be the issue on the midterm.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, last year the forum crowd was all aggitated about "o, da gubbinmint"
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mircea_popescu: to avoid any possible inconsistencies in dbases i am taking the ordering offline tho.
mircea_popescu: no need to panic, all data is safe, by the time this is done mpex will have 10gb dedicated.
mircea_popescu: mpex servers will be offline for a few hours. we are reconfiguring the router system, putting in new optics
mircea_popescu: "S.MPOE": {"1d": {"avg": "74815.940534","min": "69034","max": "75000","vsh": "4149547","vsa": "310452261595","cnt": "41"}, "7d": {"avg": "74981.9993279","min": "69034","max": "78628","vsh": "11012234","vsa": "825719322387","cnt": "218"}, "30d": {"avg": "68500.398679","min": "61530","max": "78628","vsh": "65503018","vsa": "4486982847676","cnt": "5975"}},
mircea_popescu: that's kinda the idea. i saidf before a government couldn't take it down.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50000 @ 0.00075 = 37.5 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: what difference does it make anyway ? you're so desperate to read my blog today rather than tomorrow ?
mircea_popescu: sorta like the doctor should know how to make you healthy, right ?
mircea_popescu: they've been playing muscial chairs for what, 12 hours now ?