Host Transfer!
There are some DNS changes going through right now along with any page starting with "http://bf2s.com/" moving to a new server. This DNS and host transfer should be done relatively soon and hopefully not affect too many people negatively.
As part of the move I have also made an upgrade to the ranking engine on BF2S. It should be faster on page loads now, especially on "Per Country" listings which seemed to be quite popular. Additionally, in your player profile under the "Ranks & More" tab, you will now be presented with your rank in your country, something I could not do before this upgrade.
Do you have a BF2S widget that has recently stopped working?
WOW. There is a windows vista gadget (I think that's what it is) which is overloading the BF2S api like CRAZY. Here's an example of the log files from 08-03-18:
What that means is someone at the ip address 76.79.201.250 requested their player stats over 1,849,927 times in ONE DAY. Mind you there are only 86,400 seconds in a single day, so they were pulling stats at over 20 times per second. Perhaps that is a shared ip, but I'd be doubtful of that since they're not the only IP to be overloading the system like that.
As such, I've removed the API till I can figure out a way to automatically deal with the inadvertent DOS attacks being caused. To be clear: I hold no ill will of the people using these widgets, as it is the developers fault for not following my clear instructions that results should be cached.
There are some DNS changes going through right now along with any page starting with "http://bf2s.com/" moving to a new server. This DNS and host transfer should be done relatively soon and hopefully not affect too many people negatively.
As part of the move I have also made an upgrade to the ranking engine on BF2S. It should be faster on page loads now, especially on "Per Country" listings which seemed to be quite popular. Additionally, in your player profile under the "Ranks & More" tab, you will now be presented with your rank in your country, something I could not do before this upgrade.
Do you have a BF2S widget that has recently stopped working?
WOW. There is a windows vista gadget (I think that's what it is) which is overloading the BF2S api like CRAZY. Here's an example of the log files from 08-03-18:
Code:
1849927 76.79.201.250 999865 207.118.253.105 997235 72.213.162.170 771632 89.184.38.100 649991 87.143.76.196 600957 72.204.230.238 522878 84.202.151.94 376715 84.49.115.97 353511 98.160.178.217 341395 75.51.125.174
As such, I've removed the API till I can figure out a way to automatically deal with the inadvertent DOS attacks being caused. To be clear: I hold no ill will of the people using these widgets, as it is the developers fault for not following my clear instructions that results should be cached.
