Sluggish response from FS

[bligslick]

Oops. Yea DDOS can be executed by an army of windows computers that have unknowingly been infected by a dormant "virus" which can be remotely triggered to execute a payload from a controlling server/hacker.  Since computer users with these viruses don't know they exist, and since they don't really have to use much of a computer's resources, they can remain hidden and just be used in the army of attack "robots" which, if enough of them, can cripple a website with only one access point, their URL which is ties to one IP and hence one computer typically... so when millions of accesses to the one website a second occur, it can cripple "regular" users access making the website seem unresponsive since it's responding to so many hits per second it can't keep up with serving pages.  I've worked on handling such a case where a competitor paid a hacker to DDOS a site and through complicated methods, we figured out IP addresses, sometimes blocking entire countries in order to make a site be able to respond to legit page requests...


I brain farted and didn't think to cater my post to the audience.  My bad.

[Tuscano]

Oops. Yea DDOS can be executed by an army of windows computers that have unknowingly been infected by a dormant "virus" which can be remotely triggered to execute a payload from a controlling server/hacker.  Since computer users with these viruses don't know they exist, and since they don't really have to use much of a computer's resources, they can remain hidden and just be used in the army of attack "robots" which, if enough of them, can cripple a website with only one access point, their URL which is ties to one IP and hence one computer typically... so when millions of accesses to the one website a second occur, it can cripple "regular" users access making the website seem unresponsive since it's responding to so many hits per second it can't keep up with serving pages.  I've worked on handling such a case where a competitor paid a hacker to DDOS a site and through complicated methods, we figured out IP addresses, sometimes blocking entire countries in order to make a site be able to respond to legit page requests...


I brain farted and didn't think to cater my post to the audience.  My bad.

Golf? Like teeing off into the woods???

[Hobby]

Too bad we don't get this many legit providers and hobbyist every month.

[Hobby]

Site should be up and running normal now.