DDOS Attack Update II
Hello everyone,
I’m not going to get euphoric, but the parking is up and running fast. This was our first priority. The homepage will follow suit.
Thank you all so much for your patience and support. We will certainly reward you and make sure that you don’t lose any earnings as a result of this.
I have a funny feeling that, once your compensation has been done, the last 26 hours may be the highest earning 26 hours of the week for you, if you know what I mean ;).
We don’t want you to bear the brunt of this attack.
To give you an idea of what we have been up against since 15.00 GMT yesterday, in addition to the 600K domains we have parked on our system, our servers were being hit by XX,XXX false connections per second for over 24 hours. The attack is increasing as we speak and has been since it began.
We estimate that just to keep up this attack, it has cost the aggressor at least five figures and possibly six figures to initiate and sustain. This wasn’t poor defenses on our part, it was the use of overwhelming force and financial resources on theirs. The mind boggles at who has the time or funds to invest in something so unnecessary.
I apologise again for the mess. Please bear with us while we get the homepage up and running today and the revenue correction done, which will take a couple of days to get right.
Mister B
August 24th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
You guys are doing a great job and I am confident you’ll always look out for us. Thanks for keeping us updated.
August 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I hope the problem finish today ….. i hope ….
August 24th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Who would spend that much money to bring down a website? They probably just put out a virus that’s using people’s computers without them knowing. Anyway, I think you guys are doing a great job of at least keeping us informed. Hopefully you can get the homepage up and running again soon.
August 24th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
7:00pm western time, still not working, how long will it be?
August 24th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
First I would like to say.. You are doing a great job! I hope you have your ISP doing trace routes to catch the bastard.. Btw the attacker is more than likely coming from your competition… No hacker or group of hackers would care to attack this site with that kind of money to put behind it just to do a simple dos attack.. If caught I’m willing to bet 100 dollars that they are linked to some other parking site.. Cheers and good luck!
August 27th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I highly doubt any figure you put out. I could have mounted such an attack by buying out a few russian hackers team for much less money than you claim.