Discountasp.net being DOS attacked

Posted by Jonathan
June 21, 2007

If you’re wondering why WhyYouShould is responding very slowly (if at all) tonight, it looks like my hosting provider DiscountASP is experiencing a denial-of-service attack. They’re working on it and hopefully WYS will be back soon

From Discountasp.net:

Dear Customer,

We experienced a network-wide outage Thursday morning and late evening as the result of a distributed denial of service attack. You can read details related to the outage here: http://community.discountasp.net/default.aspx?f=6&m=18216&p=1
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Comment Number:: 1
Written by:: jesús
Posted on:: June 22, 2007 at 2:37 pm

Hi, I also use DiscountASP for some websites. I created a feed of their Emergency Status Page so I can be aware of the changes. Here is the link…

http://feed43.com/6722754642821618.xml

I hope the attack ends soon.

Comment Number:: 2
Written by:: Thogek
Posted on:: June 23, 2007 at 12:52 am

Same here. I’ve been completely locked out of my site and related functionalities (including email) for two days. Generally, DiscountASP.NET is really good, but I guess anyone can be targetted by DDoS’s. I hope the source is identified soon…

BTW, they have a status page - outside the area that’s being attacked and flooded — at http://daspstatus.com/.

Comment Number:: 3
Written by:: Jonathan
Posted on:: June 24, 2007 at 11:52 am

Nice, jesús!

Thanks for the link Thogek!

Comment Number:: 4
Written by:: Eric
Posted on:: July 2, 2007 at 7:48 pm

Full Disclosure: I do work for DiscountASP.NET. We were under a massive DDOS attack off and on for 2 days. Everything is now operating normally. We did post in our community forum (http://community.discountasp.net) about what happened.

Comment Number:: 5
Written by:: Jonathan
Posted on:: July 2, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Thanks for the post, Eric. Congrats on fending off the l33t h4×0rs

Comment Number:: 6
Written by:: Thogek
Posted on:: July 25, 2007 at 12:01 am

Looks like DiscountASP.NET is proactively trying to reduce the chances of being taken out by something like that again: http://www.hostreview.com/news/news/070724DiscountASPNet.html

Nice to see the responsiveness…

Comment Number:: 7
Written by:: Jonathan
Posted on:: July 31, 2007 at 10:59 pm

That’s awesome, Thogek. Further cements my opinion that they are a great hosting company

Comment Number:: 8
Written by:: jojo
Posted on:: February 6, 2008 at 6:40 pm

It’s down right now:

2:20 PM (PT) February 6, 2008: Network Outage
We are currently experiencing a network outage related to our backbone provider (Savvis). We do not have an ETA for the return of service, but we anticipate a quick resolution.

2:30 PM (PT) February 6, 2008: Network Outage
Apparently the outage is not affecting everyone on the Savvis network, but their technicians are working to resolve the issue and expect to have it taken care of soon.

Comment Number:: 9
Written by:: Eric
Posted on:: February 7, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Full Disclosure: I do work for DiscountASP.NET. We experienced a network outage on Feb 6, 2008 for about 2 hours. This was caused by network configuration changes that our upstream provider, Savvis, made in error. We did post in our community forum (http://community.discountasp.net) about what happened. We also updated our outside daspstatus.com site with status reports during the outage.

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