So last night the server that Tabulas was located on was the target of a SYN-ACK attack. Basically an evil user decided to fake requests of files on the server at a high enough rate that the server got saturated with requests. This meant that legitimate users got locked out of the server when they tried to request files.

This, in and of itself, is not abnormal. Big sites are under attack all the time - I had the NOC take a look at the attack, and the attack seemed to die off after a while.

No, but this is not the reason I write the post. The reason I write this post is the LOL moment I get. I post this notice in the forum, and look at the two responses I get.

"When will our accounts be back up?"

I bit my tongue last night because I figured I was being too "in the moment," but luckily Heatsink responded politely.

It almost seems like they thought I was attacking the server. Or that it was someone that I knew so I could ask them to stop.

Riiiggggghhhhhhtttt.