The ongoing DDoS had shifted gears and they're attacking database intense functions of the stats from thousands of IPs making it hard to filter.
Its causing *stats side* database replication lag, which is playing havoc with random hashrate calcs.
Pool side (ie: the important stuff like earnings) are not affected.
The attackers goal seems to be to stir up confusion. Judging by these posts its unfortunately working. :-/
Thanks for the update. Do you have any idea how much assets you would need to get a better protection? If I or we all had a better idea, I'd go for a crowd-funding-round.
Not really the point. I honestly am pretty irritated that some person or group has decided that Eligius, a project I volunteer my free time and resources towards, is to be their target without even any reasons or explanations given.
It's very discouraging and I'm at the end of my patience trying to deal with it.
Maybe it's time to think about selling Eligius to someone who can make it an enterprise which isn't reliant on the altruism of a single individual.
Donating it to a non-profit organization would be another possible alternative. In that case you'd probably be named as a board member. I don't know about others, but I'd definitely feel better about donating to a non-profit organization than to...what exactly
is Eligius anyway? A partnership? (For liability reasons I sure hope not! But given that I don't see any "LLC" or "Inc." or "Ltd." in the name that's apparently what it is.)