For the past several days, this blog has been a target of a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial-of-Service) which put the site to a crawl.
According to our data center, the DDOS attack was targeted to this domain alone (not the main server IP) so this is obviously a targeted attack at us. We don’t have any idea to the attacker but we have tried a lot of ways to mitigate this.
As a result, you may have experienced the site to load very slowly or completely unviewable.
To those who still cannot access the blog at the moment, I suggest subscribing to the RSS Email blast here (it’s hosted separately by Feedburner and is not affected by the attack).
As I can see, you are using Cpanel on your server. Why not use Litespeed to replace Apache?
Litespeed handles DDOS very well. and RAM consumption is a bit low compared to httpd.
But its a bit expensive as the licenses is per CPU Core basis.
Why would anyone wanna Hack you guys? You need a guy to do offensive security.
why don’t they nuke a site like filipina.com? those hackers should have some ethics in employing DDoS attacks.
filipina.com is outrightly insulting. the domain name must be bought for our own honor.
Welcome back Abe! How’d you get over it?
yeah… i noticed your blog loads slowly than the other sites that i visit… hmmmm
Hi guys! Thanks for the suggestions. With the help of our DC Engineers, we’ve actually done most of the suggestions you gave as first preventive measures. This is also the reason why some Ips are being blocked from certain IP segments because of the connection limits we’ve put in place.
Someone from Verisign also contacted me and another provider offering their anti-DDOS services and I’m contemplating on getting them.
I thought it was a server/ISP problem for the past few days. Shame on whoever did this but this could also be a sign of your celebrity status!