April 2010
1 post
Smooth Sailing
Happy to report nothing short of smooth sailing since the big DDos attack back in March.
March 2010
7 posts
The Attack is Still Hitting the Old IP
All client sites have been moved to new IP addresses and only a few of my old websites remain on the old IP address. I received a message at about 11pm from my system admin who suggested that the attack is over and that he had removed the IP block from the afflicted IP address. With in 15 minutes I had another message from him explaining that the attack started back up. Of course this is a bummer...
IP Address Updates Complete
I have completed the change of IP addresses for all clients. I will continue to monitor things and if there are any other issues that come up I will update all of you again.
Over the next few hours the remaining sites should start to come back online. Depending on the internet service providers (ISPs) it could take as little as 30 minutes and as much as 24 hour hours. So far I have been noticing...
Updating IP Addresses
I am currently reassigning my clients one by one to different IP addresses. This attack is coming at one website domain name. We are not sure which website at this time. However, moving websites to different IP addresses will help us figure out which website is the one being attacked. It is likely that when I move that particular website over to a new IP, the attack will follow it. If the attack...
Server Has Been Restored
I am now able to access the server and have moved it to a different IP address. However, all of our clients are still on the effected IP address. I have just purchased additional IP addresses and will begin moving websites over one by one. Once I do this it could take 6-12 hours for the website to show up across all networks due to the IP address having to propagate. In most cases it will happen...
Server Downtime Due to DDos Attack
This email is going out to all of my hosting clients so I apologize for not addressing you by name.
Last night at around 9pm the servers came under attack via a DDos Request Attack (Denial of Service Attack). What this means is that someone wrote a script that would direct 1000’s of computers that were probably infected with malware to try and ping our server. The only thing a DDos attack...