Server capacity being overloaded quite frequently

[WhitetailAni]

Browser, version and OS: Chrome OS latest version

 

Steps to reproduce/what were you doing before it happened?

I was reloading the forum home page.

 

What happened?

It gave the "server capacity exceeded" message.

 

What did you expect to happen?

The page to reload.

 

Link to a page where it happened, if applicable: 

linustechtips.com

Screenshots of the issue, if applicable: 

Spoiler

Any other relevant details:

It happened multiple times throughout submitting this post - it took about 2 minutes to load the Forum subdirectory, it gave the same error while loading the "submit post" screen, loading up an alternate post, I got Error -200 when trying to submit the first screenshot, wasn't able to link for about 5 minutes (gave "There was a problem trying to access this content" error), I almost accidentally double-posted because I got the "Server capacity overloaded", when editing, loading up the post to edit, submitting the edit, etc.

 

If it's a cloudflare error, what was the ray ID from the bottom of the error page?

No CloudFlare error

 

This has been happening a lot, and started to build. Does anyone know what's been happening?

[isHypnophobic]

I'm getting the same messages as you. Either LTT's getting DDOS by some fancy shmancy setup or there's a lot of users this Saturday night.

 

Hope it's the latter though.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, isHypnophobic said:

I'm getting the same messages as you. Either LTT's getting DDOS by some fancy shmancy setup or there's a lot of users this Saturday night.

It's Monday...

But I thought it was Saturday too - I haven't had a "no-school" day since Thanksgiving.

[Blade of Grass]

We're are aware and are working to mitigate the DDoS attack. 

[isHypnophobic]

5 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

It's Monday...

But I thought it was Saturday too - I haven't had a "no-school" day since Thanksgiving.

Aaaahhh it's MONDAY?! Yeah something about today made me think it's Saturday lol. But I guess it's just some bored DDoS cannon user. Hope it resolves soon though.

[Windows7ge]

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working to mitigate the DDoS attack. 

AGAIN!?! Why? What script kiddie got pissed off at LMG now?

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

AGAIN!?! Why? What script kiddie got pissed off at LMG now?

Pretty sure the beard is triggering the wrong people... LTT is getting ddos'd more than PSN at this point... 

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

AGAIN!?! Why? What script kiddie got pissed off at LMG now?

More likely its someone who got banned from Discord/forums/Minecraft and thinks its vengeance. You don't understand how petty people actually are unless you are in staff role of big forum like this.