Servers down again!

another Bad Gateway!

Yep Byro's daily afternoon shut down.

at least now they issued an explanation

however i find the "external attack" thingy to be sus

Bad gateway again, every day

Input from Freezy (this forum, news

The servers are spammed with requests, basically a ddos attack. (...) There is no security breach.

To explain it in very simple terms, imagine some bot net is loading the CoW website 1000000 times in a given moment, and does this over and over again. The server has to answer such requests, otherwise legit players would not get the website loaded when they visit it. But if the server has to answer too many requests, it gets overloaded because it gets more requests than it can serve (you have seen this happening).

So the trick is to filter out the "bad requests" from the "good requests", so that only legit players (who want to access the site at the same time as such attacks are happening) get the data to load the game. Unfortunately, those bad actors know about counter measures as well, and adjust their approach to circumvent them, so it is a constant back and forth until the attacker gets bored of it or the counter measures are so high that it becomes too expensive for the attacker to keep going. Of course it also has a cost for the company, which is the main reason why the attacker attacks in the first place. They want to disrupt our servers to cause monetary losses by a) forcing us to work on counter measures and b) ruining the fun of our players so that they get frustrated and leave (or stop paying).

Absolutely fed up with this. I dont believe a word Bytro write tbh.

I suspect what they are doing is cutting BACK financially so the frequency of black outs just increases. Gone 2 hours now with permanent bad gateway. And they take my money - bastards !!

Very, very poor service. Games now becoming unplayable because of this.

another service denial in progress?

another?