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CI & Monster issues

Is it just me, or is it these sites? When I try to get to CigarMonster and CI I am redirected to Ask.com. Is it my computer, my server, or is it a problem with CM & CI?

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They've been having problems with their sites over the last few days.

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Saying service unavailable for me.

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I ordered a box from them last night and received a order code.

Wonder whats wrong.

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They are still having problems.

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Its also cigarbid, joesdailydeal, and famous.... joe has a page on twitter and he said that the server is majorly screwed up... i guess we must wait it out!

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They should hire Greg (dunng) to fix it....he does that as a hobby for free cigars!

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Originally Posted by scooter (Post 469936)

They are still having problems.

You're up Early!!!:D

Yeah! I have saved a bundle with those sites down!!!;)

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I still get redirected to Ask.com when I try to access either of these sites.

Just me? Or do all have that issue?

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Originally Posted by RevSmoke (Post 470017)

I still get redirected to Ask.com when I try to access either of these sites.

Just me? Or do all have that issue?

I'm not getting the redirect, just a "bad response from server" after a couple of minutes.

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[paranoia]
I think its more then a coincidence that CI, CigarMonster, and Cigar Monster are all down, unless they are by the same group/guy.
[/paranoia]

I want my sites back :)

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Sorry for your problems, guys. Just FYI, I logged an order with JR about an hour ago, and they're running fine, thank you very much. Doesn't help youse any, but I'm happy - and it blows a small hole in Robert's conspiracy theory.

;)

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Didn't work for me either Todd...... :(

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Originally Posted by Skywalker (Post 469983)

You're up Early!!!:D

Yeah! I have saved a bundle with those sites down!!!;)

:banger

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I managed to get in earlier today to CI and Joe's Daily deal, but no longer.

Deal today is a box of El Mejor Emerald for $44.95.

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Cigar Monster has been up and down for the last week... When I try to access from Firefox or IE, I get either a "Bad DNS" or "No response from server" message. I've been able to access the Monster from my iPhone a few times, but even that is hit or miss.

I haven't been redirected to anywhere else though, Todd... :confused:

http://smileys.on-my-web.com/reposit...used/sorry.gif

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I just tried CI a little while ago and got nothing.

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They probably rent servers from the same server farm.

MCS

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CI works fine for me all day today. I got my tracking number as well. I think it's fixed now.

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Originally Posted by The Poet (Post 470266)

Just a dark side :P

I'm glad they're back, heres hoping for a great deal on CI tonight!

PS
I'm New here!

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Cigar Monster still appears to be messed up, BUT if you log onto Famous-Smoke, you can access the current deal.

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This has been going on for most of the week,
makes you wonder how much money they all lost.

Chas

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Now I can get CI but cannot get cigarplace. :hm

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I sure hope this isn't the new flavor of the "Anti-Tobacco" movement!

*where's my tinfoil hat....* :r

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Currently cannot get to -
Cigarplace.biz
Famous
Cigarmonster

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Unusual that ll these Cigar spots go down at the same time...makes me wonder...Hmm...Anti-smoking Hackers?

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Ci , Cbid and Joes come up for me but not Famous or Cigar Monster . I bet they're losing a good bit of cash on this one .

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Just got an email from Famous saying that they were, as some other major cigar vendors, the target of some DDoS attacks. Dunno if they were just indirect or direct targets.

Quote:

Dear Jon Quirit,

Many of our customers have been wondering why our websites have been slow or inaccessible for the past five days. The problem was due to a targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, similar to what has recently been happening to some large government websites, financial institutions, and e-commerce sites in the U.S. and abroad. For those of you who do not know what a "DDoS" is and what it is not, I will briefly explain. First and foremost, no one's personal data has been compromised. I want to assure you that all your personal data is safe, protected and intact.

So what is DDoS? These attacks occur when a flood of traffic is deliberately sent to a particular website in an effort to overwhelm the site and prevent legitimate users from getting through. This is exactly what occurred over the last five days to famous-smoke.com and to some of our competitors in the premium cigar industry. WE ARE NOW BACK, and I have taken steps to ensure that this cyber terrorism will never happen to Famous Smoke Shop again:

We have contracted with experts in the internet security industry to mitigate the attack, and our website was successfully brought back on line Sunday evening. Our security consultants will continue to monitor our network traffic to combat the continued attacks. In partnership with our security consultants, we have performed exhaustive security audits of our networks, servers and websites. Again, I want to reiterate that in no way was our security breached or our data compromised. Although the attackers were successful in generating enough traffic to bring our websites down, we were not "hacked," and all of your personal data has been, and continues to remain, secure.

Like many of you, until a few days ago, I had never heard of DDoS, nor did I understand how widespread this problem has become in the ecommerce sector, how vulnerable we were, or what the consequences of such cyber terrorism would be. Had all retail cigar websites been affected, as some others were, your online cigar supply lines would have been severed completely.

Unfortunately for me, while this disaster was occurring, I was in Nicaragua and Honduras, and did not fully understand what was happening to my company. You can only imagine my frustration. All I was thinking about was creating new products for my customers, and I'm pleased to report that we have some excellent new surprise cigars on the way.

Thankfully, right now our company is functioning normally again. We were attacked. Jealous competitor? Anti-smoking terrorist? It's impossible to know at this point. Suffice to say, we are doing everything in our power to get to the bottom of it. Moreover, because of the deliberate targeting of our industry, and the scale and duration of the attack, Federal authorities have taken an active interest in pursuing the attackers and we intend to cooperate fully.

Even more frustrating was being unable to communicate and inform you about the situation until now, since our email was out of action as well. Therefore, I apologize to all of you, my valued customers, for the inconvenience and the silence.

Sincerely,
Arthur Zaretsky
President,
Famous Smoke Shop-PA, Inc.
www.famous-smoke.com

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Still no Famous or Cigar Monster....Damn.:(:(:(:confused::confused:

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Cigar Place is also still down.:(

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Out of 3 attempts to look at Monster this morning I saw it once.

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well due to the issues I won 9 auctions and now have 3 UPS packages headed me way