https://twitter.com/aweber

I would call them up but it seems to me that they have big technical issues.

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Apparently they were having problems over the weekend as well judging by some of the comments on the (Down right now site)..what's a DDos attack. a hacker or something?

Mikaedi

I have not been able to login. Glad I don't have a big campaign going on.

Use your own mailing software and go through Amazon... no downtime at all

Yes it's a pain-in-the-A(weber)

The same happened to Namecheap 4 days ago
Namecheap targeted in monumental DDoS attack | Security & Privacy - CNET News

I can't believe Google-news doesn't have any updates, no alerts, no nothing on the Aweber DDoS saga

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At the Aweber status page https://aweber.statuspage.io/ they have a quick fix if your using Java script on your page.

I'm frankly amazed aweber didn't have ddos protection in place.

This could take some time..I remember a well known forum having the same problems and it was down for at least a week.

One of my forms is still loading. The rest are not. Strange.

How much leads will we lose if they stay down or will they make it up to us, they just automatic took a payment today from me, so we see that the billing system is still working. Whats up with that?

If you are using LeadPages with your landing page or optin, you're covered. Leadpages saves the info and will send it to AWeber when Aweber is back up and running.

All I'd say is this is NOT Aweber's fault!! So anyone saying it doesn't happen on XYZ needs to realise that it COULD happen on XYZ.

ahh they are facing DDOS attacks, sad but also unprofessional that their servers are not strong enough to handle it

Some of the biggest companies in the world have been hit with effective DDOS attacks so, like I said, not fair to blame Aweber.

In the middle of last year, a DDOS attack brought down most of the Chinese internet!

Glad I took a backup of my leads yesterday!

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Just my luck. Started a brand new PPC campaign and solo email ad campaign two days ago. Sent traffic to my squeeze page all day today for nothing. Not impressed to say the least.

Could they not have sent out an email to all clients asap so that we could pause or cancel our advertising campaigns?

I will be requesting some free months of Aweber service or I will be going to one of their competitors.

Just found this: Is AWeber Down? Hackers Take Popular Email Marketing Service Offline With DDoS Attack
Is AWeber Down? Hackers Take Popular Email Marketing Service Offline With DDoS Attack

Aweber Status Page AWeber Status

They experienced a ddos attack.

Yes you are right you are not only a person who facing this issue i was click on download link and after taking a long to load download page it shows " web page error".Hope they will resole this problem soon.

I've personally been in the position that
they are in and stayed up for days next to
my tech guys fighting attacks, sleeping on
the floor, sitting in our data center when
I ran a huge hosting company years ago.

It's not FUN! At all!!!!

That's why I wanted to inform you
of a few things that may help.

1. To check the status of there servers
go here -> https://aweber.statuspage.io/

2. Here's a fix for the slowness. The forms still won't
load, but it should help your website speed:

https://twitter.com/aweber/status/43...513600/photo/1

3. Also from what I gathered, no subscriber
data was compromised in the DDoS attack

"Yes, no subscriber data was compromised in the DDoS". I hope thats true.

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Yep they are back up thank god

Still down for me...

How can you say that i am only post here for just showing my signature.I know english is not my mother language whats wrong with my post that you are saying this.

Still down.

DDoS attacks are really bad but I guess they weren't fully prepared to have all that damage ... i respect Aweber and I think they are great but i`m not sure if they are that great on security

ZOMG, I'm back in!!!!! Woop! Woop! Woop!

Yes, aweber is back online however, is has anyone tried sending out an email?

I ask because, about 2 hours ago, I sent out a broadcast email to around 16K subscribers. My aweber account is still reporting 'sending'. I'm subscribed to my list and still haven't received the email I sent out.

So, things aren't back to normal yet.

Anyone else can confirm slow sending of emails?

Robert

They are still not online for me. But I'm in Southeast Asia and on a slow internet connection. Maybe the site is still just bogging...

Still no form either.

As a heads up, my form wasn't showing even once the aweber site became accessible.

But I repasted the code and now it's working. So you may have to fiddle with it a bit.

Aweber site won't load up for me, can't access any aweber links in emails either

Hey guys,

Aweber lets me get into my account but everything is loading slowly.
I was not able to create/send a broadcast.

I'm connecting from Czech Republic.
Is there any good news from other places of the globe?

Thank you.

Igman

First Click Bank now Aweber. I just hope the hosting services like Hostgator stays out of harms way

I can access the main page, but I can't access my account since the attack. When I try to enter, I'm brought to a page that says my account is closed. I've raised a ticket, but I got only a general notification about the DDOS attack. I've replied to this message that I have a unique problem with my account. I hope the support team will help soon, and I can access my account again.

I was able to login to my account as of
2/26/14 3:15p EST.

I'm sure whatever updates that was made
will be beneficial to the end users.

Yiha! Just checked my acount a minute ago and it is back! Hope it stay this way!

Here's just a quick update...

My Aweber's account is working in a full capacity.
I was able to broadcast to one of my lists, create several opt-in forms, and backup all my subscribers. Everything seems to be working smoothly now.

Guys, don't be lazy. Go and backup your subscribers' database!

Happy emailing to everyone!

Igman

The reason so many posters in this thread were sweating out the attack is that they aren't prepared for anything going wrong and rely a bit too "Blindly" on the assumption that any service they pay for (or use freely) is going to work perfectly.

Nothing online is, or ever will be, absolutely certain of 100% uptime, be it Aweber, [Insert Name of any 3rd-Party Service: ______________] or your own websites.

It's one of the core risks of doing business online.

If you're like most online businesses, you'll find that you're going to depend more and more on 3rd-party services in the future anyways - it's just the nature of the web today. It's rarely feasible from both the technical and financial perspectives to try and do it all in-house.

That said, rather complain about what transpired with Aweber, you really should be asking yourself, "What should I plan for in terms of contingencies like this to minimize the impact on my own business activities?"

For example:

1. Do you routinely back up and store (securely) all data related to 3rd-party services you use?
   
2. Do you have an (temporary) alternative service or system in place?
   
3. Do you have a plan to smoothly migrate from one service to another?
   
4. Do you have backups of your own sites/data?
   
5. Do you have a plan to switch from one host to another quickly and seamlessly?

These are just a few very basic questions to get you thinking about the specifics of your own business operations. Unfortunately, most people don't think about this stuff until it's too late.

So, learn a lesson from this and take a few minutes each day to start preparing your own business for whatever contingencies may occur. It's not difficult and doesn't take long - but it does require consistency and careful planning.

and I thought it was me. I learned to have a backup.

Just two days lol. I have people telling me they have been having problems off and on for 2 weeks. YOu must be on the friendly server lol.

According to https://t.co/YGV0Knc38i , MailChimp was under attack last evening. Not sure if it's related, or still ongoing, but it would be interesting to have more details.

Nothing on their blog about it...

Edited to add: Looks like it took them about 10 hours to get it stopped, according to their Twitter feed. (@MailChimpStatus)

Were all under attack, I just deleted 1000 spam signups from about four blogs and installed captcha on them. lol. even Target and the rest aren't safe.

i was watching a government official on T.V. today and one of the questions was. Will be safer in the future. She actually said yes lmao.

As long as we have security IT we will have hackers that work against them. All we can do is take precautions and then not guaranteed to win the race.

Back up Back up Back up and don't use your own merchant account lol.

Aweber is down once again, check status here: https://aweber.statuspage.io/ I'm done with them! Moving all my subscribers to Getresponse

GREAT SCOTT!!

AWEBER IS UNDER DDOS SIEGE YET AGAIN!!!

Just go to the status page here https://aweber.statuspage.io/ for the latest updates.

Yeah, I've been to that site listed, it says the opt-in forms are operational, but mine are not working?? I guess AWeber pissed somebody off big time. It's times like this where I'm glad I back up my list and have a self-hosted AR (ARPreach) and hand.

Here you go - 10 Reasons Why Warriors Are Switching to GetResponse.

The 3rd DDoS in 5 days!

This is getting ridiculous, and costing people a lot of money. Come on AWeber, get a handle on this problem before the trickle of customers leaving becomes a flood!

Sorry for everyone that use Aweber, been down for a while now..

There have been tons of DDOS lately, they are not the only one to be affected. Also if you use your own mailing solution its great until YOU get DDOs...

DDOS =- denyal of services, basically loads of fake traffic is sent to a host which overload the target server(s) putting it to its knee.

If this is happeneing to aweber, how are the emails getting through? Particularly regarding the latest WSO offers?

I switched from Aweber to Getresponse 2 days ago and I am glad I did. I was already planning to change my autoresponder and the stuff that happened this pass week pretty much nudged me sooner rather then later.

People right now that are loosing a lot of money because of this.

No hard feeling with Aweber though their customer support was top notch and it sucks for them that they are loosing a lot of business because of whats going on.

People give up WAY to easily. That's all I have to say.

It would be crazy if Getresponse hired some people to mess Aweber service up to get more customers.

Haha in the world of conspiracy my mind goes crazy!

This is incredible. Isn't there any technical solution for Aweber to stop these attacks?

GetRespone:

My Aweber was working perfectly last night and today, but now it's not working. I am getting emails from members of my list saying they want to click on the links in the email, but can't....argh.

Anxious for this to be fixed.

Now Getresponse is down haha, what is going on. Well time to go to icontact! lol

To all those bashing Aweber and saying Get Response is better, try and loads Get Response

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-attacked.html

Haha I know but if I am gonna be without service I might as well save a couple of bucks using Getresponse.

SOMEBODY is pissed! Wow!

I don't know much about business networks of if there is anything like this, but they should make some kind of service, so if your business service crashes, attacks, etc. that everything would switch over to a new server or something like that, I guess a backup of some sort.

I don't know much about the technology that goes into huge business type networks but this type of insurance would help businesses keep there business.

It would probably be way to expensive to maintain that type of backup year after year and they would probably charge us a lot just to use there autoresponder service.

DDOS attacks are quite common today. Just about every corporate business has DDOS Protection installed on their servers. Aweber never thought they needed to.

Aweber says they now have DDOS protection put into place. It is not working. Most likely their protection can only handle the smallest size attacks. If you have the protection that you need would not even know you were receiving a DDOS attack. The DDOSD services would filter the attack.

I have ddos protection on my server and it has never been down for more than 15 minutes.

These attacks that aweber can not handle will no doubt impact their business. They will be losing customers over this. This could have been avoided with the correct ddos protection.

Lmao, I have a plugin I need to register to validate and it is setup on aweber for the validation email. Forever I have trying, everytime I remember to do it. Aweber is down again. Guess what, its down again

I just need one second to validate the plugin, Just one. Cross your fingers.

Really getting tired of wasting money on ppc campaigns that send traffic to a non-functional squeeze page . Unfortunately I am not able to check Aweber status every 5 min to make sure they are running so the better part of a day goes by before I realize they are down and I pause my ppc campaigns.

I was already looking for other good auto-responder alternatives before this fiasco, simply because Aweber is very expensive imho. Has anyone ever used Monster Response and if so can you provide any feedback?

Thanks in advance

I know this is crazy... I can imagine all those who are pissed off that have WSO's on the first page, or those driving paid advertising to squeeze pages. I bet getresponse is loving this! They seem to be online at the moment.

this stuff happens from time to time.

not long ago, yahoo mail was out for a few days....thats millions of users...way more than aweber.

amazons servers have issues too from time to time. netflix uses amazons servers and they have had several issues. a couple for over 12 hours.

there really is no sure fire way to defend these sorts of things. you can only be pro-actively reactive. the attacker always gets the first move.

i did a lot of consulting for hg for many years and its just a constant battle.

i assure you, most people would be very amazed at how many of the attacks are snuffed out before they have any real affect at all. But sometimes defenses just arent enough.

The big thing to learn is to have backups and alternatives services in place.

i now run webforms that add people to at least 2 systems via api integrations. some of my core lists are even being added to 4 AR systems at once. Only one of which is doing 99% of the mailing, but the others are there are ready to go if needed.

How would you go about installing your own script ?
What are the chances of being marked as spam when using own script ?
There are way better options than Aweber >> what are those ?
Cheers in advance for any information

I have been trying to check my Aweber Affiliate stats for quite a while now and did a search to see if it was down and came across this forum post. Leave it to the Warriors to have this on page one Google search. They should move over to Amazon hosting which will help them avoid this problem in the future.

5 mins. ago I just got access to my Aweber Account. My account seemed to be taking longer than some that were already saying they got access.

At the top of the page is a message from CEO Tom Kulzer regarding the DDoS attack. Here's the link From our CEO: About the Recent DDoS Attack

Make it a great day,
Joe Remington

Anyone using leadpages with getresponse ?

The website is now up and running but when I integrate it with leadpages, leadpages still say getresponse failed ??

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You guys switching just cause of this are overreacting. Like Paul has said, attacks of this size are incredibly hard to prevent, you just can't predict it. It was aweber this time, next time it will be getresponse, and the next time it will be someone else.

Unfortunately these types of attacks are only going to grow. Just consider the downtime from them a cost of doing business and be sure to diversify your income so one attack like this doesn't take out a huge chunk of your income. Good luck to those of you affected, but look at this as just an example of what can happen and what will happen again in the future and have a plan in place for the next time.

my question is why didn't they invest in heavy-duty DDos protection from the beginning? Aweber and getresponse are not small companies.

Did they just get hit again man?

#fml

Where's that thread about whiskey

Looks like Getresponse is getting hit too...

I have posted in anther thread this.

While Aweber is down still, other companies are going through the same thing. One of them is Getresponse.com.

I don't recommend that you move your services else where. I am pretty sure that both Aweber and Getrespone are both on this and are working to fix this.

check it out. status.aweber.com they tell you its all ok..
now getresponse is down too what the hell is happening to email

Every service provider of any web based service who gets big enough to become a target will have down time from such attacks at some point...assuming the world keeps spinning around long enough. its has happened to all the big boys and it will happen again.

The key lesson is to build redundancy into your business structure so that these sort of attacks have as small an impact as possible.

Spend some time and a little investment capital to safeguard your business from these sort of things as much as possible.

work out what your plan is if each of the core services you use goes away instantly. A good way to do this is to look at all your monthly expenses...hosting, AR, tracking, payment processor.... and have backups already worked out ahead of time.

i also use a company called https://mybackupbox.com/ to keep server files/databases synced in multiple places.

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ovidu, i consulted for HG for many years. They have been the target of many many DDOS attacks over the years that have taken many of their servers offline for many hours at a time.

about 3 years ago the HG site itself was taken offline for over 36 hours by a DDOS attack.

The planet datacenter in houston tx (which was the primary HG datacenter for years) was hit with a DDOS attack about 2 years ago that took thousands of sites offline for over 8 hours. over 1/4 of the sites hosted at HG were offline during that time.

I am certainly not slamming HG...they have successfully defended thousands upon thousands of DDoS attacks with little service interruption, but to think that they are foolproof is just absurd and it show how little you understand about whats going on.

DDOS attacks have taken companies like bankofamercia, gmail, yahoo mail, youtube, and amazon web services offline.

DDoS attacks can, have, and will again take sites hosted at hg and many other hosts offline...again...assuming this ole world keeps spinning long enough.

if your plan is to be with services that never get attacked then good luck with that. Thats not a plan.