BHW home page not opening.

[dheer]

whenever I try to access home page it says:-

If you feel you have reached this page in error, please contact the web site owner:
webmaster@blackhatworld.com

It may be possible to restore access to this site by following these instructions for clearing your dns cache.

Is it only me or you also facing the same problem?

[cooltoad]

@dheer : I too face that page sometimes. But it is just for a minute or two.

[bwman]

I had this problem yesterday, was quite frustrating,cos I felt I as missing out on a lot.. but it was fixed in a couple of hours

[Chees]

I wonder why? Is someone DDoS-ing BHW ? If so why they don't get DDoS protected hosting?

[trustedfire9]

i have the same problem from 3 weeks , but i got this , when i enter HP !

[Seo Lover]

Working fine for me .

[dheer]

It seems like this same problem is appearing for many different guys on different times. For me it started yesterday and it is not yet fixed.

If a mod or admin can clear this if something is going bad or updation on would be great.

[cooltoad]

I think we will have to live with it @dheer. BHW being such a huge entity, it is bound to face problems every few days. I have been struggling with BHW access for almost a month, but still it has been a lot accessible the last week. So improvements are made, there is no doubt about that.

[HoNeYBiRD]

It seems like this same problem is appearing for many different guys on different times. For me it started yesterday and it is not yet fixed.

If a mod or admin can clear this if something is going bad or updation on would be great.

i didn't see any official explanation either about this issue other than the post of the owner of hostwinds from more than a week ago:

Ok people.......


BHW Is constantly under a DDOS attack, we are working on mitigating the attack, while reducing the effect on legitimate users. The first time you load bhw it will be "slow" while it determines if you are real traffic or a botnet, subsequent loads should be much faster. If you don't load for awhile, and then load a page, then it will be "slow"

There are times when the DDOS attacks really pick up couples with the forums already high traffic it "overloads" the actual pipe, we have new hardware en route that we will be installing over the next 2 weeks to solve this problem, and essentially reduce the delay for first loads to 0.

In the meantime if you notice BHW is really slow, it WOULD help if you sent me a PM with your tracert results to blackhatworld.com, to get these results open command promopt (Start >> Run >> "cmd" (no quotes))
Then in the command prompt window type this in

"tracert blackhatworld.com" (no quotes)

Then send me a PM with the full output of the tracert

[Abstroose]

Clear your cache.

[pokerjk]

It seems like this same problem is appearing for many different guys on different times. For me it started yesterday and it is not yet fixed.

If a mod or admin can clear this if something is going bad or updation on would be great.

Same as you here

[Hostwinds]

You guys are quick on things, doing a major overhaul to the BHW setup now adding a new frontend webserver that should eliminate all speed problems people have been complaining about

[Hostwinds]

This as well as the speed issues have been resolved let me know what you guys think

[reinie]

Thanks...
I kept getting directed to some "make money with facebook" product

[Hostwinds]

Is this still happening?

[reinie]

nope...

[Hostwinds]

nope...

Great hows the load speeds for you?

[Randy569]

For me, at the moment, if I change pages, it says I'm not logged in. If I try to log in, it says I've used my quota of log-in attempts, and tells me to wait 15 minutes. So, I just back back-click, and I'm logged in and everything works.

Strange stuff...

[Hostwinds]

This should now also be fixed thanks for pointing it out!

[Randy569]

No, it is still doing it.

This time, though, I couldn't back-click and get back in. I kept trying to log in, and after about 10 attempts, it finally let me back in.

[Hostwinds]

No, it is still doing it.

This time, though, I couldn't back-click and get back in. I kept trying to log in, and after about 10 attempts, it finally let me back in.

Shoot me a PM if it happens again

[Randy569]

Shoot me a PM if it happens again

Will do. Seems to be working right ATM.

[Hostwinds]

One of my techs logged out and logged in 100 times without problem

[dheer]

Just to inform the problem is solved now. Thanks hostwinds for the quick updates.

[cooltoad]

Yeah. BHW is loading very smoothly for me. Hope it stays like this.

[upl8t]

Working fine today. For awhile I was getting every other page not working.

[bartgatsby]

This occur sometimes

[pokerjk]

Working good for me again now hope it stays this way

[Hostwinds]

Great guys keep me updated