Online Computer Programming Contest

DDoSed by Dan
Wednesday June 02, 2010 At 03:57PM
Sadly it seems some individual or group has nothing better to do then wreck the educational opportunities of other students by attacking the DWITE front end server during contests with DDoS attacks. Unfortunately there is not much we can do to prevent this type of attack beyond working with our data center to filter out all of the IP addresses being used in this type of attack and contacting the proper authorities with the information we have on the attackers.

We will keep the judge running for this round and try to keep things up but there may be long periods of down time which we deeply apologize for.

The 8th round for this school year will be canceled well we work on methods of preventing this type of attack for future DWITE seasons and possibly on upgrading our infrastructure to increase reliability.

Sorry for any inconvenience

Round 7 v2.0 by Dan
Wednesday June 02, 2010 At 01:04PM
Today is the make up contest for round 7. We have spoken with our data center and hopefully there will be no repeat issues with DDoS attacks.

Good luck and have fun!

7th Round Rescheduled by Dan
Sunday May 23, 2010 At 02:39AM
The 7th round that was canceled last Wednesday has been rescheduled for Wednesday June 2nd at the same time (3:15PM EST). All teams singed up for the last round will still be singed up for the rescheduled round and new teams will still have till the 2nd to sign up for the new round.

Hopefully this round will run much smother then the last.

Rescheduling of Round 7 by Dan
Wednesday May 19, 2010 At 06:51PM
As many of you have noticed, just as round 7 started the DWITE.ca server went down. This was due to a DDoS attack occurring at the same time causing the server to become unavailable. As most users where unable to access the site, we have canceled the 7th round and will be rescheduling it for a latter date once we have assessed the damage and put measures in place to stop this from occurring in future rounds.

There will be an update latter this week (both posted on the site and e-mailed to users singed up for the 7th round) with the date and time of the make up round. We are deeply sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused and hope that you will be able to participate in the make up round.

DWITE Round 7 by Dan
Wednesday May 19, 2010 At 12:20PM
Today is the 7th round of the 2009/2010 DWITE contest. We have 187 teams singed up to take the contest at 3:15PM EST. There is still time to sign your teams up, but make sure to get it done before the contest begins.

Good luck and have fun!