I agree with this. Who will compensate for lost time and money as a result of this? That's rhetorical of course because no one will as usual. I don't mind auth being on SB's end, but it should work 100% of the time if that's the case. For a software of this reputation large scale ddos attacks should have been provisioned for.The first time was annoying, now that it's down again....
I hope whatever they are installing to prevent ddos attacks in the future makes sure this never happens again.
I dont care if its a one time fee or not...if your going to make usage/authentication for a product I paid for dependant on something on your end, it should work...period.
I'm quite annoyed by this bullshit now. Who the f are those guys doing the ddos attacks? We need to attack them back. :mad2:
UPDATE Scrapebox for the "Fix":You need to update your scrapebox to the latest version.
You can download just the exe here:
http://www.scrapebox.com/dl/scrapebox.exe
or the full package here
http://www.scrapebox.com/payment-received
As noted by Softtouch Sweetfunny can't access BHW right now. Sweetfunny had emailed me back giving me the update so I could update and told me they couldn't get to BHW, and so I am just posting what they gave me.
The short of the story is that for security reasons, scrapebox is directly integrated with the licensing servers. To mitigate the DDoS attacks they had to buy an entirely new server and hardware DDoS firewall protection.
Which means they had to first completely migrate the entire license database and all things on the license server. Then they had to build in the new server to scrapebox and recompile a new build of scrapebox to use the new server. Which is what is above.
Now they have to go rebuild and recompile every addon, and a bunch of other tools. Things like these are why it has taken so long and working out a DDoS server and having it and hardware firewalls provisioned with a new company etc....
Just sharing what I know.
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