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   DOS attach

   

   GeoDog, Aug 1st, 2002 @ 10:34pm

   
   

   Just out of curiousity, who is your provider and where to do they claim the attacks were directed at? My provider, www.phpwebshosting.com, told me that one of my sites, http://www.thebishop.net, was down because of a DOS attack against their facility in Fremont, CA.

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   Re: DOS attach

   

   Mike (profile), Aug 1st, 2002 @ 10:41pm

   
   

   My hosting company is Actionweb.com, and I have nothing but good things to say about them. I've used them for almost 5 years now, and they're phenomenal. I've used a number of other hosts for other projects, and they all were terrible. Now I host everything through Actionweb.
   
   Actionweb uses a few different facilities to host their machines. One of them is located in Fremont, and is run by He.net. He.net hosts machines for a LOT of different hosting companies, so I would imagine that your hosting company was hosted there as well. He.net apparently had a DDOS attack against their routers - not directed at a specific server machine. It brought down (I'm told) at least two of their main routers, taking out a large number of machines, including Techdirt (and apparently yours as well).
   
   I've hosted machines directly with He.net before and they were a disappointment. Having Actionweb run the machines through He.net has worked much better, but even they are saying that in the last month He.net has been having a lot of problems. They're thinking of moving all of their machines to another facility that they've been having better luck with.
   
   On a related note, He.net colos with AboveNet (now MetroMediaFiber or something like that), and which is having tremendous problems itself - and is shutting down some of their centers. So, I was wondering if that was going to cause some problems as well.

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