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Web Site Errors, Delays

Author: M.Keating (26 Jan 07 9:57pm)

It seems that http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ is lately very slow loading, sometimes failing to load at all. Is this because of legitimate hits' keeping the site busy, or is there some sort of Denial-of-Service attack in progress?

Separately, how often does the information on the "Data" pages get updated? The "Most Recent Harvester" is now five days old. Is this a normal delay, or have we finally done in all of them?! :-)

Thanks to anyone who can answer these.

Re: Web Site Errors, Delays

Author: M.Prince (5 Feb 07 1:33am)

We've been under MAJOR load by search engines which we've begun to allow to index our deep pages. While we think this ultimately provides a valuable resource, it has overwhelmed the web servers that run the project.

We are in the process of upgrading our hardware and making Project Honey Pot a more robust platform. This upgrade will coincide with the launch of cool new features... including our often-promised http:BL service.

In the meantime, sorry for the trouble. The stats are still being tracked and will update whenever the critical processes on the database slow down enough for the less-critical processes to run.