[Lift] Re: Lift demo website down

2009-08-07 Thread David Pollak
It's up. Please try again. Occasionally, the site gets session-bombed (some external system creates thousands of new sessions) which causes an out of memory condition on the slice-hosted instance. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Terry J. Leach terry.le...@gmail.comwrote: The Lift demo website

[Lift] Re: Lift demo website down

2009-08-07 Thread jon
Hi David, What strategies would you employ to protect yourself against such an attack? Thanks - Jon On Aug 7, 9:30 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: It's up.  Please try again. Occasionally, the site gets session-bombed (some external system creates thousands of new

[Lift] Re: Lift demo website down

2009-08-07 Thread David Pollak
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:43 AM, jon jonhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, What strategies would you employ to protect yourself against such an attack? I'm not sure it's an attack. It may be a poorly designed search engine. But, one could write code to analyze the session creation and if