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Thanks UK attacker! We are withdrawing from the UK
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NL is big, such a bad host that will need to do things like these to get a sale wont be noticed in the sea of NL providers. It does not make sense, but it might be a DDoS company in NL trying to get more DCs to sign up.
Was thinking that too EdgeWeb. Data centres competing with UK locations also have a motive... TBH I think anyone wanting to compete in the UK seriously enough will actually find out who is behind the attacks.
I honestly don't think a big datacenter would do that. It's usually the small frustrated people which take this sort of actions.
there it is again, normally can't string a sentence together but hardly a mistake above.
I am absolutely sure that it would not be worth the money they spend on that massive DDoS attack over the past year if their only intention is to "eventually" get someone sign up for their DDoS protection. Same goes for a DC/provider in the NL. There are so many of them that it's next to impossible to determine if the person they are attacking would move with them, or move with other NL DC or other EU DC. It's impossible to make such calculations and assumptions.
I also think that attacked providers from the UK should combine efforts and get their upsteram providers to assit with the whole situation. Eventually collect enough logs and start figuring out where the attack is originating from. Start collecting every piece of information you can get. Start contacting owners of exploited nodes (Even automate this process). There deffinetely would be a way to backtrace that attack, somehow with enough money put into it. Also, it seems reasonable to think that the unaffected provider is behind those attacks as that same company would mostly benefit from this attack.
can't even spell someone's name? shrugs
What if the attacker decides to ruin VPSDime entirely and starts taking down each location seperatly? would @serverian drop those locations too till there is nothing left?
Is giving up even a option? you probably invested alot of money in expanding to the UK, wouldn't it be better to take the extra step and start upgrading the size of your network ports or add decent protection? You knew this could happen and DDoS attacks are no new threat, as provider you should be prepared for them, if you cannot afford to then don't provide the service. the amount of ddos attacks only grows these days it is just too easy to get access to services that can make this happen, time for the providers to start upgrading?
Screw UK.A country with backward infrastructure cheap ass DC which cannot control DDOS attack.US hosts FTW.
When your DC has it's bandwidth saturated and tells you to pack up and go because they can't deal with it, what can you do?
@Mark_R the problem with that is then having to "upgrade" everyone's prices to pay for all of that
I take your point though no doubt if it follows him to the NL he will not just keep moving as that would be silly.
'Merica, FUCK YEAH! Coming again to save muthafuckin' day yeah!
'Merica, FUCK YEAH! Our DC's are the only way yeah!
USA would not exist if the backward people with cheap ass infrastructure had not killed all those Indians for you!
@Nekki
Language dude, I think @Shaun123 is only 12 years old, or he appears that way mentally.
True, Personally I wouldn't mind paying the extra $$ just to help the provider keep up. but I forgot for a moment that we are on lowendtalk.com here so alot ppl probably will hate paying more just to get a better service reliability / helping the provider to stay strong.
Haha.
So just to clarify, they'll be moving Winity and Backupsy as well? Will be a shame if they do. I currently use my Winity VPS for VPN access when using Sky Go on my regular Germany business trips. Sky require you access it from the UK for DRM reasons so having to cancel that and go with another UK host will be a massive ball ache.
@serverian is it just VPSDime that is moving or all UK based Nodisto services?
When I was with IOMart/Redstation staff they said to me they were fine and terms of handling ddos attacks, ha
Sales?
Just VPSDime. VPSDime provides OpenVZ and that's the competing product. Not Windows or Storage VPS.
Redstation are fine in handling DDOS attacks if you can stump up the money for bandwidth and 80% capex of a Riorey
I am using openitc which is using same DC that vpsdime is using and uptime is 100%.
I was in their glasgow office, and it was the top management that I was with said that to me, i didn't question it as it was an important meeting to myself.
Yep, it's just limited to a certain number of hosts.
So not to be all conspiracy theory...but to be a little conspiracy theory...
Who are the remaining low end hosts in the UK?
Just for curiosity, how many Gbps/PPS?
Someone said earlier that their DireVPS was getting hit. Are you using OpenITC or DireVPS? And is your VPS monitored for DDoS/packet loss? Your VPS uptime might be 100% but network uptime might not be.
There's actually quite a few when you total them up. Not a complete list, but off the top of my head - BHost, NECS, OpenITC, Inception Hosting, HTTPZoom, OnePoundWebHosting, Evorack, GBServers, the ones with the Corgi's (although they're barely lowend in all fairness), WeLoveServers.
http://lowendbox.com/blog/vooservers-2-70-128mb-xen-vps-in-uk/
VooServers have been going for a few years too.
There are quite a few providers when you look at that list. Maybe @serverian is on someones shit list :-) Come on @serverian, whose cornflakes did you piss in?