The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30521   Message #1188359
Posted By: kendall
19-May-04 - 06:36 AM
Thread Name: Paltalk technical questions
Subject: RE: Paltalk technical questions
Thank you for inquiry below. Unfortunately, as you might have noticed
during the past week, at times it has been difficult to connect to Paltalk.
You may have also noticed that the sound quality in some of the rooms hasn't
always been as clear as usual. We wish to apologize for the poor service
recently and will explain the cause. Our servers have been under constant
denial of service attacks. For those of you that do not know what a denial
of service attack is, consider what would happen if 5000 people were
constantly calling your cell phone and 4999 were deliberate wrong numbers.
Your cell phone would be rendered useless.   Basically, that is what has
been happening to us.


Please note that we are working on this issue around the clock in
conjunction with our service provider, upgrading our infrastructure to
better withstand these type of attacks as well as working with the proper
authorities to track down the parties responsible.   Service should now
begin to improve and we expect the service to be completely back to normal
over the next few days.



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