Sharky
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Starting yesterday, Thu 4 Sept, T2W came under heavy and sustained DDoS attack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
This means that someone, for whatever motive, wanted to take T2W offline.
Yesterday we did our best to block the ips of the computers that were saturating the server. This worked for the most part but meant blocking addresses from several countries across the world and the attack ceased for a few hours yesterday.
However this morning, the attack resumed with a vengeance and completely saturated the site and making it unaccessible or at best, extremely slow over a 12 hour period.
Our best course of action then became contracting the services of a dedicated DDoS protection company to mitigate the damage. This took us a short time to set up, but once it kicked in, although we remain under attack, their services are able to automatically detect and block the attacks, whilst letting real members through to the site.
In the history of T2W, we've been under attack very rarely (a handful of times in 13 years), but never with the intensity of the last two days.
Rest assured, we'll remain vigilant and do everything in our power to keep the site accessible despite the best efforts of whoever is maliciously targeting the site.
Thanks for your understanding, and apologies for the disruption.
Note: If we get knocked down again, then you can get updates about the situation through our social channels here:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/trade2win
Facebook: www.facebook.com/trade2win
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
This means that someone, for whatever motive, wanted to take T2W offline.
Yesterday we did our best to block the ips of the computers that were saturating the server. This worked for the most part but meant blocking addresses from several countries across the world and the attack ceased for a few hours yesterday.
However this morning, the attack resumed with a vengeance and completely saturated the site and making it unaccessible or at best, extremely slow over a 12 hour period.
Our best course of action then became contracting the services of a dedicated DDoS protection company to mitigate the damage. This took us a short time to set up, but once it kicked in, although we remain under attack, their services are able to automatically detect and block the attacks, whilst letting real members through to the site.
In the history of T2W, we've been under attack very rarely (a handful of times in 13 years), but never with the intensity of the last two days.
Rest assured, we'll remain vigilant and do everything in our power to keep the site accessible despite the best efforts of whoever is maliciously targeting the site.
Thanks for your understanding, and apologies for the disruption.
Note: If we get knocked down again, then you can get updates about the situation through our social channels here:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/trade2win
Facebook: www.facebook.com/trade2win
