Good morning all
We currently have our hosting environment with domains.co.za
They are under DDOS attack at the moment so the network to all our servers is saturated.
The connection to all hosts is slow to none. We host a large number of servers with them and this has a severe impact on our hosting capability.
There is currently no ETA on when this will be over as we don't know the size or extent of the DDOS attack.
Network engineers are trying to mitigate the attack, but as with any DDOS attack, if its large enough from enough sources its nearly impossible to stop. Like a thunderstorm, you need to wait it out.
It is at this stage that we seriously consider finding a data center in the EU with better DDOS mitigation capability as there are centers with years of experience in mitigating large attacks with almost no noticeable downtime.
We need to weigh the extra latency to the EU with business being offline for our customers during a DDOS attack.
We have hosted with every single provider in South Africa and we have had terrible DDOS mitigation experience with all of them (except for Domains as this is the first DDOS attack they are having while we are hosting with them and we are watching how well it's mitigated very closely). Depending on how quick connection is restored we will remain with domains (and in South Africa) or pack up, back up, cancel leave and migrate to the EU during December.
We currently have our hosting environment with domains.co.za
They are under DDOS attack at the moment so the network to all our servers is saturated.
The connection to all hosts is slow to none. We host a large number of servers with them and this has a severe impact on our hosting capability.
There is currently no ETA on when this will be over as we don't know the size or extent of the DDOS attack.
Network engineers are trying to mitigate the attack, but as with any DDOS attack, if its large enough from enough sources its nearly impossible to stop. Like a thunderstorm, you need to wait it out.
It is at this stage that we seriously consider finding a data center in the EU with better DDOS mitigation capability as there are centers with years of experience in mitigating large attacks with almost no noticeable downtime.
We need to weigh the extra latency to the EU with business being offline for our customers during a DDOS attack.
We have hosted with every single provider in South Africa and we have had terrible DDOS mitigation experience with all of them (except for Domains as this is the first DDOS attack they are having while we are hosting with them and we are watching how well it's mitigated very closely). Depending on how quick connection is restored we will remain with domains (and in South Africa) or pack up, back up, cancel leave and migrate to the EU during December.
Not cool.