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Or those darn Yankees
This isn't the first time they're announcing they're being DDoSed. Any hosting provider would be aware that DDoS attacks can happen, but public announcements and following it up with geopolitical accusations seem unnecessary when all of this should have been communicated directly to affected customers only.
Affected customers are all customers and the majority of our customers are from LET. There's a reason LET has the Outages section.
We don't post any DDoS that happens, we get them often. We only post when it's severe enough it knocks off majority of clients.
Also, our email systems and website even have been effected - it's hard to send an announcement to clients when systems are up and down.
We are a very transparent host. We don't go hiding when we have these issues and wait for he flood of posts complaining and people calling us a scam and asking for refund. The few times we didn't post quick enough, someone else will email, call, and message everywhere calling us a scam. Better to be transparent and upfront with all clients - past, present, and future.
As much as I disagree with the "lets blame state actors" thing.
I do respect that you are communicating issues and posting updates.
Definitly more than you can say about some other providers.
Oh, come on—there were outages all morning in Macedonia; did the cat walk across the cable? That just doesn't add up! Your expertise might be good, but for the international business—count me out!
It's definitely still on-going, Albania is out again this morning.
No! it was state sponsored of russian hackers. They cut the cable.
I don't have proof. But I have so much evidence, cannot be a coincidence.
Was rerouted again. Monitors detected 6Mpps hitting AL and MK this morning and flipped back to GSL routing.
Working again, thank you for the update.
People, please stay on-topic. The topic is described in the opening post
Even a (semi-serious) suspicion would need some kind of motive. What would make you so important to them that they'd burn resources they could otherwise direct elsewhere? As far as VPN activity is concerned: As @luckypenguin already said that's exactly what gets you blocklisted over there but this is nothing really personal or special.
Unless you are hosting some kind of Ukrainian drone backend or whatever i don't see why the Russian government would even notice your existence let alone spend resources on you. No offense but in the grand scheme of things most of us just aren't much of a big deal. It's natural.
I'm closing this thread for a couple of hours
I've done a massive clean-up of this thread
Thread reopened
People, please stay on-topic
@avsisp , it would be useful if you gave an update on the situation that you described in the opening post
At this time the only updates we have are:
1) Last night the DDoS ended from around 11pm until about 9am this morning (CEST) at which time it resumed
2) We re-routed locally last night, however as the DDoS is ongoing again, we were forced to reroute again this morning to GSL for filtering.
3) We are awaiting confirmation from GSL when the DDoS has ended for several hours before rerouting back.
4) We've implemented automatic monitoring and rerouting to GSL is now automated should it start again after that.
Also - thank you for taking the time to handle the cleanup of thread. Appreciate your efforts @Armstrong
Kudos for that!