Nathan that is nicely put. I enjoy this site and have built quite a few friendships in the MINI community because of M/A. If anyone has had the same experiences as I have here and you are not yet a supporting member, please consider it. That's how we help Nathan!
Yes, being a supporting member helps out quite a bit. These attacks take a fair amount of resources to counter. Your supporting membership to M/A helps a lot to keep the scofflaws at bay.
Catching up on unread posts, I'm seeing some funny things happening. Some threads disappearing, then reappearing, posts I read showing back up with nothing new, etc. Might be some residual bugs running around the electrons, Nathan.
Added a layer of protection from DDOS attacks, but at a cost that tripled hosting costs.
Yep and DDOS attack again. A UDP flood with high PPS (packets per second) Imagine thousands of people crushed up against you each needing to shake your hand. you keep moving between them as fast as you can but can't spend time responding to any other requests.
They were. I may need to look at new hosting options.
Sure, if you know this stuff contact me please. It's a your basic webserver.
I don't understand why they do this, what do hackers gain for themselves by DDOS attacks on a website? I could understand it if it was backed by some big international corporation that someone had a hard on for and wanted to shut down, but us? We're just this fun, friendly little website.....we never hurt anyone......
