Site not working in Portugal?

[Davide]

I'm in Portugal and I can't connect to GA without a VPN since last night, the site just doesn't load. This is happening on both desktop and mobile, since I think about 10 hours ago. I was only able to connect now by using a VPN that connected me to the Netherlands.

Edited May 29 by Davide

[Myr]

2 hours ago, Davide said:

I'm in Portugal and I can't connect to GA without a VPN since last night, the site just doesn't load. This is happening on both desktop and mobile, since I think about 10 hours ago. I was only able to connect now by using a VPN that connected me to the Netherlands.

Our server was under heavy attack from Portugal last night, and the firewall automatically blocked access from that country.  It should clear itself soon

[Davide]

1 minute ago, Myr said:

Our server was under heavy attack from Portugal last night, and the firewall automatically blocked access from that country.  It should clear itself soon

It's working now. Thank you. That's a weird thing to happen, though.

[Myr]

8 minutes ago, Davide said:

It's working now. Thank you. That's a weird thing to happen, though.

Yes.  But we don't have the pleasure of being able to afford having a nice high-end system like Cloudflare or other cloud-based mitigation systems.

[Davide]

5 minutes ago, Myr said:

Yes.  But we don't have the pleasure of being able to afford having a nice high-end system like Cloudflare or other cloud-based mitigation systems.

Yeah, my comment wasn't a criticism of you not having any system in place for that. I just thought an attack like that was strange.

[Myr]

7 minutes ago, Davide said:

Yeah, my comment wasn't a criticism of you not having any system in place for that. I just thought an attack like that was strange.

Attacks happen all the time. especially the last few weeks with all the major security flaws they found in Cpanel. The whole internet has been under heavy attack.

[Jason Rimbaud]

I think everyone knows I am not very tech savy.

When you say underattack, does that mean bots are trying to flood GA's servers? Or is it like hacking attempts? 

Jason (Not trying to derail but generally curious what that meant)

 

[Myr]

9 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

When you say underattack, does that mean bots are trying to flood GA's servers? Or is it like hacking attempts? 

both.