Dear Valued Customers,

On 12AM EST Sunday October 22st (Saturday night into Sunday morning), we will be deploying our Toplayer anti DDOS equipment datacenter wide.
So far during our evaluation process, the services have met or exceeded all expectations, and we believe it to be another great value add service provided to our clients. During this deployment, we do not expect any packetloss, however, you should expect higher than normal latency (ping times) to your
servers and websites for a period of approximately 2 hours. We are scheduling the window of installation from 12AM EST until 6AM EST though, just to be on the safe side. We realize that for most of you, this will not be a major factor, however, for those of you that it will briefly effect, we apologize for
the inconvenience.

Further information about the Toplayer products we will be deploying, can be found at http://www.toplayer.com/content/resource/solutions/DoS.jsp with the
specific services being added at http://www.toplayer.com/content/products/i...k_mitigator.jsp

The purpose of this service installation is better protection for our clients against DDOS and other related attacks. Unfortunately the industry as a whole has been effected by these attacks, and we are working hard to assist our clients in everyway possible. If you have any questions regarding this service window, please feel free to contact us directly. We thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Below is the list of the servers affected:

65.98.8.*

69.72.157 *

208.116.16.*

Sincerely,

Hostony.com

Congratulations! This is so great to hear. Yay!

My sites have been dead for several hours.

The Hostony explanation:


Dear James,
your domain is up an running at the moment but there is a DDOS attack on the server at the moment.

---------------------
Best regards,
Slavik Koshelev.
Support Team

If you installed DDOS protections several weeks ago, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON NOW????

Email is DEAD.
cPanel is DEAD.
FTP is DEAD.

WHAT IS GOING ON?

Excellent point. I'm interested in their response.

wich of the servers is involved in DDoS attack?

Top layer actually makes decent anti-DDOS equipment but if it is deployed on their (Hostony's) site the damage can still be done by saturating their internet connectivity with unwanted crap the toplayer may filter and not pass it on to the servers but the DDOS is successful in denying legitimate service. The best way to do DDOS protection is in the telco's network(s) before it ever hit's your connection(s)

Great info.!