The social network Hello went offline today. The new service has been around for just over a month, and it's already showing issues that many are experiencing Social Networks in their early days. Right now the social network seems to be back.
Visiting any of the site's pages led to the following message λάθους: “Η ιστοσελίδα δεν είναι διαθέσιμη, διεξάγουμε κάποια απαραίτητη συντήρηση. Θα ακολουθήσουν τυχόν updates about the status of our page.”
However, according to the Ello status page, the interruption is not due to maintenance: "We accept a possible service attack." The company began investigating the DDoS attack at 16:15 p.m. EST.
It is possible that the first error message is the default one that automatically appears when something goes wrong (the page title still says "Offline for maintenance"), while the status page gives more accurate information. According to the administrators as you can see in the last message, after blocking the IPs the page works again.
