Update: OKCoin appears to be back up and running now. We are going to leave the monitors running for now.
Website Outage
Accoring to this post (contributed by btcdrak) from OKCoin's Blog: Post From OKCoin About Downtime
The company states:
Due to Aliyun Hong Kong’s datacenter network problems, our international platform is temporarily unaccessible until Aliyun’s issues are fully resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and we will update as soon as the site is back up.
The Aliyun announcement can be found here:
http://blog.aliyun.com/?spm=5176.383338.201.86.anCdKl
Indicating the websites data-center service is the actual issue. The error being displayed on the website essentially indicates that the primary web server if no longer reachable, so this is consistent with the blog post from OKCoin.
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| OKCoin Error 523 |
Attempts to find the web server or ping the platform are also unsuccessful from anywhere, and the server is down and unreachable worldwide.
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| Coutresy: isitdownrightnow.com shows a complete blackout |
Cloudflare
The screen now showing at OKCoin is a Cloudflare messege. Cloudflare (San Fransisco, CA), provides a content delivery network and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the CloudFlare user's hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites.
Its network protects, speeds up, and improves availability for a website or mobile application with a change in DNS.
The advisory being displayed at OKCoin, is often shown when a website is under an attack, such as a DDoS attack, and hackers are making an attempt to shut the site down, or bypass security with brute force methods to obtain sensitive information, or steal digital goods and services.
Usually this type of error is only visible sporadically, and for a few minutes. At the most a couple hours. OKCoin has been down for over 12 hours without any indication or communication from the Beijing based company. Indicating that they don't know, or the more likely scenario, they know, and they are either working to fix the problem, or something catastrophic has occurred and they don't know what to say, or preparing what to say.
Update: We've added the above real-time monitor and it's watching OKCoin.com
Our OKCoin Live Monitor
Update: We've added the above real-time monitor and it's watching OKCoin.com
About OKCoin
OKCoin.com is a Chinese digital currency trading platform and exchange based in Beijing. OKCoin was founded in June 2013 and by 2014 had grown to become the largest Bitcoin exchange in China. As of June 2014, the company has over 80 employees
We decided to leave the monitor pointed at OKCoin to keep an eye on them.
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