On that note, I’d like to announce that the site will be migrated to a new server to allow the old one to function as a dedicated download server. I am very happy that the site has risen in popularity and I remain committed to making sure it and its sister site d2kplus are running smoothly. A good chunk of that is due to new traffic to our YGOPro download page, but Dune 2000: GruntMods Edition is as popular as ever. There wasn’t much going on for awhile so I haven’t made a news post in a while.įirst off, the site seems to be picking up a user base, with the amount of visitors steadily increasing. Transparency is the best policy when it comes to these issues and I hope you continue to enjoy what GruntMods has to offer.Īt GruntMods we believe in transparency, which is why I like to actively communicate changes going on with the site and upcoming projects. We are always working at providing the best possible service and apologize for any interruptions. We are also working with our providers to establish load balancing, which will both improve speeds and availability between different regions, even during peak usage or through similar size DDOS attacks. This provides additional protection against issues with specific regional data centers. Server Redundancy: The Web Server is now located in a Toronto data center, and the file server is located in Montreal.

Going forward, additional monitoring will be put into place on both servers to notify us of any issues that occur before they impact performance.

Server Monitoring: We have implemented file level server monitoring to notify us of suspicious activity on the file server.

New Server Instances: We have deployed additional server instances and reconfigured these with tighter security settings, to cover us against further attacks through other avenues.

Increased Security: We have raised the protection level with our partners at Cloudflare, bots and other automated systems will have a significantly harder time visiting the site and utilizing any services we offer.

We have taken the following measures to ensure the server is as secure and functional as possible: Several hours after service was restored at 8am, we again saw an increase in traffic matching the profile of the original DDOS attack. Although we have measures in place to prevent automated attacks against our service there is no such thing as a perfect defense and as such the site was taken offline by our hosting provider until the attack subsided. On February 2nd at 3:13am EST and its respective file server was the victim of a DDOS attack.

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