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Jan

2009

JED gets more power.

Written by Brad Baker

In an effort to mitigate the recent JED downtime (over the last few days) we've just completed a migration of this site to a new server. The new server has faster hard drives, as well as a higher performance processor (Quad Core).

We realize how important the JED is to the community, and have worked as hard and as fast as we could to identify and take action addressing the causes. In addition to the hardware upgrade, we also discovered what appeared to be a DDOS attack that was also contributing to the issues. Many of the IP's identified and blocked were most likely ordinary computers, their owners unaware they were being used to this end.

 

In any case, thanks for your patience, and for now we hope things will return back to normal. Special thanks to Ben and Chris from Rochen who have both worked around the clock, staying up late to sort some of these things out.

 

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  1. avatar Cory makes this comment

    2009-01-27 04:52:59

    Thanks, Brad! As always, top notch work.

  2. avatar Louis Landry makes this comment

    2009-01-27 05:10:25

    We cannot thank Rochen enough for keeping our sites running smoothly. It is an incredible amount of work to keep an infrastructure up when it is being constantly abused like the joomla.org sites are. Thanks again for the unflinching support.

  3. avatar Ændrew makes this comment

    2009-01-27 05:13:07

    Rock on! I noticed the JED was down the other night and I started to panic there for a second... "WHAT DO I DO NOW?!?!?!" :-D

    Keep up the awesome!

  4. avatar John Coonen makes this comment

    2009-01-27 05:38:00

    It is appreciated! Thank you.

  5. avatar Andrew Eddie makes this comment

    2009-01-27 05:48:45

    Good stuff and thanks to all the people at Rochen that keep the engines running for us :)

  6. avatar Carlos M. makes this comment

    2009-01-27 21:22:29

    I thought it was my proxy. Great Work, actually the JED is one of the great sites of Joomla.org. Thanks!!

  7. avatar Gonzalo Suez makes this comment

    2009-01-28 00:42:18

    Thank you very much Brad!

  8. avatar Guysmiley makes this comment

    2009-01-28 15:13:01

    Thanks, Rochen!

    This is why we host our sites with Rochen! Phenomenal work.

  9. avatar ron.severdia makes this comment

    2009-01-28 19:52:21

    Thanks to all the Rochstars!

  10. avatar Gergo Erdosi makes this comment

    2009-01-29 11:28:04

    Thanks Brad and the whole Rochen team for the hard work!

  11. avatar Tim makes this comment

    2009-01-29 22:26:32

    Any word on when the site will be back up?

  12. avatar odino makes this comment

    2009-02-01 11:29:05

    Good, JED is probably the most important part of the Joomla! world, as well as the forum :)

  13. avatar Diyet makes this comment

    2009-02-01 20:35:59

    thanks.

  14. avatar said makes this comment

    2009-02-03 00:26:32

    It is appreciated !!!!!;-) Great Work,

  15. avatar Michael makes this comment

    2009-02-04 13:30:27

    Thanks again folks. You`r the best!!

  16. avatar Digiwise makes this comment

    2009-02-06 08:47:51

    Hi Brad!

    Since a week or so, I'm unable to access the JED site.
    Probably my ISP ips were inside the problematic ips range.

    At this moment the ip that I'm using is inside the 201.52.0.0/16 range.

    If you guys could revise the blocking list it would be marvelous.

    If not, that is ok.
    I understand the headache related to server attacks and the taken measure, I would do the same for the sake of the majority.
    Unfortunately the good ones have to pay for what the cr*p ones do.

    For those ones with the same problem that I'm having the work around is to access the JED site using an free online proxy. Just do a search on Google for "free online proxy"

    Regards,
    Digiwise

  17. avatar Memeltu makes this comment

    2009-02-08 20:10:42

    I want to say thanks too, you guys make life ez. Keep up the great work.

  18. avatar BidLessTravel makes this comment

    2009-02-09 01:30:52

    When choosing my first Linux host, having migrated over from the asp.net world, I, too, went with Rochen simply because they host the Joomla mothership. I have never regretted it.

    I have only submitted one service ticket and that was to upgrade my account. ;)

    Glad to see the JED back online and running fine. Are the updates/publishing new components going to speed up? ;)

  19. avatar steve makes this comment

    2009-02-10 09:51:32

    Thank you so much for the help. Our ISP had their Ips banned. So i have used a free online proxy. :'(After so many days of not being able to access JED, am now able to use the service.:-)

  20. avatar Tom makes this comment

    2009-02-16 19:13:37

    Sorry to be a bother. I have been unable to view extensions.joomla.org for several weeks on either of my computers. It states Network Timeout. Can someone please help? Thank you.

  21. avatar john makes this comment

    2009-02-19 11:07:14

    I'd love to see the search feature get improved. More specifically, results that have your keyword in the title should show up first. For example, I was looking for 'docman' the other day and the actual docman extension was on the third page! I know the JED isn't google, but some basic ordering by relevance would be nice :-)

  22. avatar Sam makes this comment

    2009-02-22 08:17:42

    Suggestion
    Please include Compulsory CHANGELOG link in RECENTLY UPDATED PAGE OF JED.

    This way we will come to know changes made by Developer.

    Thanks

  23. avatar Edvard Ananyan makes this comment

    2009-02-28 20:56:17

    New hardware is good. But I guess people in JED are so busy!
    Read this and you will see what I mean How to become a successful developer in less than 5 minutes. 8-)

  24. avatar samatchi makes this comment

    2009-04-14 00:24:19

    i want to say thanks too, you guys make life ez. Keep up the great work. :-)

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