Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Well I had an interesting moment today when I inadvertently locked myself out of the site - including all access to the server I always enjoy these problems because I learn something along the way... and it may lead to solving some of the uncommon problems that people occasionally have with the site.
I was in the middle of posting a response to a post, and got tripped up in what I was posting, so I pasted my response into the clipboard and hit the browser refresh button (F5) a few times. The web page locked up (!) so I closed my browser window and tried to reload the site again - to no avail. So I tried to access my admin account, and couldn't. Then I tried to access the client account on the server, and couldn't. Suffice it to say I was completely unable to interact with the site - even though my hosting account showed the server was up, and I was having no trouble accessing other Internet sites.
Turns out that I had spammed my way into a temporary firewall block of my IP by pinging the server too many times in too short a span of time Kinda funny when you think about it. It is probably a pretty rare occurrence since this is the first time it has happened to me - and I am on the site a lot and am constantly refreshing the site and reloading things. If it happens again, I'll have to tweak the firewall settings. For a couple of minutes I thought the site was being hit with a denial of service attack by Russian bots because I could see all the firewall messages - and then I realized the IP it was blocking was mine
I was in the middle of posting a response to a post, and got tripped up in what I was posting, so I pasted my response into the clipboard and hit the browser refresh button (F5) a few times. The web page locked up (!) so I closed my browser window and tried to reload the site again - to no avail. So I tried to access my admin account, and couldn't. Then I tried to access the client account on the server, and couldn't. Suffice it to say I was completely unable to interact with the site - even though my hosting account showed the server was up, and I was having no trouble accessing other Internet sites.
Turns out that I had spammed my way into a temporary firewall block of my IP by pinging the server too many times in too short a span of time Kinda funny when you think about it. It is probably a pretty rare occurrence since this is the first time it has happened to me - and I am on the site a lot and am constantly refreshing the site and reloading things. If it happens again, I'll have to tweak the firewall settings. For a couple of minutes I thought the site was being hit with a denial of service attack by Russian bots because I could see all the firewall messages - and then I realized the IP it was blocking was mine