#ddos attack

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. 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). I thought this was old news until someone told me they've been a target of a DDOS attack only recently. In return, their website will not be attacked and shut down. Within a week of that initial contact, the website was hammered with a DDOS attack. The engineers at the Makati Data Center hosting the site were quick to deploy preventive measures to block the DDOS which lasted for days in intervals or 15 to 20 minutes between attacks. Read more in our articles including "DDOS Attack Advisory" and "Online Blackmail Gang running DDOS attacks ".