Is there a widespread DOS attack of ISPs going on?
New to your forum and hoping someone can enlighten me. I host several of my clients with Hostsave, which had adequate services for their needs. Reasonably fast load times, easy access for me, ability to manage various aspects without being a server-tech-guru, running on unix and having a cgi-bin. All was good with the world, although their support via email simply sucks, they did answer questions better on their non-toll-free phone system after you waited on hold for 20 minutes or so. Anyway, it was a reasonable service for the money.
Until .....
About 2 weeks ago, I got a message from my client that one of the sites was loading slowly. I checked it out and found that the host had buried a news message that they were under a severe DOS attack. (you had to click on the login screen in order to see the message from the host). Since then, they said that they are not the only ISP affected, that they have notified the FBI, that they are receiving 3million packets per minute instead of the usual 1600. It took service for the site and email down to a crawl for about a week. Last week the service was much better, but still obviously weaker than normal. Calls to their support office and via email left me somewhat puzzled about status. I notified them that I was receiving strange emails via a feedback form script that I do not use and they said, "yeah, we know about that, but we don't think it is a serious issue". While an IT friend said that someone is trying to hack through a script that the hosting company has mapped to all the various accounts hosted with them (it is formmail.pl). I asked them to remove or modify the script and they said they would not at this point in time. I looked through the raw server logs and found the IP number of the person(s) trying to hack the script and provided that infomation to Hostsave. They were underwhelmed with the suggestion that they look into it.
Now... I have just received a very angry note from one client claiming service has been out for days. I have not seen it down, but I wonder if there is a backbone server out affecting one region? My question is this .... is this DOS attack widespread? Is anyone else feeling this? (I heard it was affecting the UK and US) I need new hosting ASAP and am unsure how to find one with better hack-security.
Help?
Thanks.
LML
