My apologies to all FreeWebspace.net visitors over the last 48 hours. When the site has been online it's been intermittent at best. If you saw our home page I'm sure you're now aware that we were hit with a large DDoS attack.
At times the throughput coming in exceeded 400 mbit/sec. In response we did pull the old IP and moved it over to another one in anticipation of another attack. That technique allowed some of you to visit at times. However, due to the bandwidth being used our upstream provider started to invoke extremely high charges per incident.
As a result Peo and I decided it would be wise to leave the site down until we could move it. We placed the order for a new server on Monday and had to wait until today for it to be set up. The day was spent compiling software and migrating everything over to the new server.
We have picked the current provider after reviewing a number of networks and the design to help deter some of these attacks. No solution is perfect, but we hope that this will greatly help.
Thank you for your patience during this period, we really do appreciate it!
At times the throughput coming in exceeded 400 mbit/sec. In response we did pull the old IP and moved it over to another one in anticipation of another attack. That technique allowed some of you to visit at times. However, due to the bandwidth being used our upstream provider started to invoke extremely high charges per incident.
As a result Peo and I decided it would be wise to leave the site down until we could move it. We placed the order for a new server on Monday and had to wait until today for it to be set up. The day was spent compiling software and migrating everything over to the new server.
We have picked the current provider after reviewing a number of networks and the design to help deter some of these attacks. No solution is perfect, but we hope that this will greatly help.
Thank you for your patience during this period, we really do appreciate it!