avast forums was down for hours what went on?

[jimmy556]

Did the site get DDoS'ed or what? it was down for hours.

[Rompin Raider]

I noticed the same but it usually doesn't take them long to fix anything that comes along! Glad it's up again!

[Coolmario88]

I was wondering what happend? I'm glad it is up again 

[DavidR]

It was down for many, many hours I contacted avast by email but no response.

I don't believe it was DDOS as the main avast.com site was up a. The blog.avast.com was also down for a long period, but that seemed to be more intermittent and when it did connect the page display wasn't complete (almost blank).

So to me that sounds more of a server issue than DDOS.

[Asyn]

So to me that sounds more of a server issue than DDOS.

Or a hack.
Don't hope so, though...!

[DavidR]

Can't see why a hack would be selective on sub-domains.

[Asyn]

Can't see why a hack would be selective on sub-domains.

As said, I hope not.
Still it's possible, why should a sub-domain be safe..??

[DavidR]

There was nothing wrong with avast.com, so it isn't about sub-domains being safe, but why it 'only' effected the sub-domains and not the main avast.com domain.

[Asyn]

There was nothing wrong with avast.com, so it isn't about sub-domains being safe, but why it 'only' effected the sub-domains and not the main avast.com domain.

Because the IPs differ.