Denial of Service on Camfrog

Denial of Service on Camfrog

March 19th, 2011 I think it’s time to let you know that the repeated problems Camfrog has been experiencing over the past several weeks are due to a large denial of service attack against our network.  We have a lot of experience fighting off attacks like this over the years and we have a system in place to make sure an attack will not disrupt our network, but for some reason this time we are having more trouble than usual.
We care about the uptime of Camfrog more than anything and any downtime actually makes me feel physically sick, so please don’t think we are not doing everything in our power to keep Camfrog online.  Our team has a huge amount of experience with situations like this and we will prevail.
At this time we think we know who is responsible for the attack and we are working with law enforcement to make sure they are prosecuted in their country to the fullest extent of the law, however we are also offering a $10,000 USD reward to the first single most important tip that leads to their arrest and successful prosecution.  If you have any tips please make the subject “DDOS Tip” and email it to our helpdesk.
Thanks for your support.

Logon Problem 3/16

Logon Problems 3/16

March 16th, 2011 We continue to have logon problems as we upgrade our servers.  Hopefully we will have short term pain but far more long term reliability in the future after the pain is over.  Please be patient as we continue to bring Camfrog back to 100% over the next days.
Thanks Camfroggers.
Update 3/17 – We appear to have similar issues as yesterday but we are working hard to solve them.
Update 3/17 2:41PM CST – If you are having problems connecting one-on-one or sending files please try upgrading to the newest client.  A new Mac client will be out soon also.  Thanks!
Update 3/18 12:01PM CST – We think we have isolated the problem and we will begin to get some stability back.
Update 3/18 1:55PM CST – Things have stabilized a bit, but we are still fighting to keep the servers online.  We are sick of this problem also and we hope things will stabilize 100% soon.
Update 3/18 3:42PM CST – Things seem to be stabilizing now, hopefully we will have a problem free weekend.  Thanks for your patience.
Update 3/18 6:32PM CST – We had another brief outage, but we seem to have the servers back online now.

St. Patrick’s Day Virtual Gifts

St. Patrick’s Day Virtual Gifts!

March 16th, 2011 Green is our favorite color!  Celebrate St. Patrick’s day on Camfrog with our new green virtual gifts.  Buy yourself or a friend a Green Beer or a Green Hat!  Watch out for Leprechauns…
St. Patrick’s Day Virtual Gifts: Green Beer, Green Hat
Meanwhile if you are having problems reaching our servers today please try flushing your DNS.  Happy St. Patrick’s day to you.