trax2 Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 I like others too depend on my site for income and email and the reality is I could have transfered my whole site with less down time to another host then what is happening now. All I would have lost was 2 hours down time if I was to transfer hosts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 I like others too depend on my site for income and email and the reality is I could have transfered my whole site with less down time to another host then what is happening now. All I would have lost was 2 hours down time if I was to transfer hosts!If you have backups of your own we'll be more than happy to restore them to another server or you can, if you desire, transfer to another provider. That's all entirely up to you. I don't see how your post is beneficial to anybody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Any new screenshots of the status? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 http://www.screen-shot.net/2011-06-20_1817_23234.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Thanks! And just out of curiosity, how is your website still up? Does it get hosted somewhere else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Thanks! And just out of curiosity, how is your website still up? Does it get hosted somewhere else?We operate a total of 10 servers, the server your site is on is offline, that doesn't mean everything we host is offline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Got ya! I am just wondering why everyone else is having email problems but my email is working OK. Although I use thunderbird, I can also access my email through mail.(mydomain).com and it's accessed through Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk88 Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 for all you guys that say you can't afford to lose one day of business etc, you need to use dns failover. We started using dnsmadeeasy. Just use their DNS service and for each site that you need online at all times, you setup failover service. So it pings your site every 5 minutes. If it goes down, it will automatically change the DNS to point to another server that you have the site mirrored on. For example, i use two reseller accounts. This one and another with just copies of our important sites. When everything is down like now, my DNS points to the IP that is online, and everything is good. Using this setup i have had virtually no downtime for a long time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 for all you guys that say you can't afford to lose one day of business etc, you need to use dns failover.Not bad advice, but let's start a new thread about this and I'll be happy to edit a link into this thread for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Current Progress: 314.8 GB / 470 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanz Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Mike do you have any idea now how much longer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Mike do you have any idea now how much longer?The backup system says this (but again, it's just an estimation): Time Remaining: 1h 19m 52sProgress: 385.1 GB / 470 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanz Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Is this going to be it then? Or will there be other stuff to do once it reaches 470 GB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Is this going to be it then? Or will there be other stuff to do once it reaches 470 GB?Once it reaches 470 GB we will restart the server and it should boot up without issues. Those who were on the IP that was under attack from the original DDoS may still show offline for a short while after as we update DNS across our cluster due to the changes that were happening when the server crashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Current Progress: 419.4 GB / 470 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abigun2005 Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Still waiting for a good news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaClay Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Mike, Thanks for all of your hard work on this issue. I, for one, am extremely thankful that you performed backups as you advertised. It wasn't too long ago that another hosting provider claimed that they performed backups; when their server(s) went down, no backups to be had. In light of the comment that this has happened a few times recently, Moving forward, isn't there a way to determine what site is under attack? If so, can't you ban that site (unless it is my site , pleeaaaseee, don't let it be my site (fingers- crossed)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 All in all this has been a very bad day. First Fresco gets hit by DDoS, then it has file system corruption, followed by the biggest hail I've ever seen falling for about 15 minutes which did a ton of damage to the family vehicles. You can see some pictures at http://forums.mddhosting.com/topic/534-freak-hailstorm-uggh/ if you wish. I'll be happy to go to sleep tonight and wake up to a fresh day, to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 In light of the comment that this has happened a few times recently, Moving forward, isn't there a way to determine what site is under attack? If so, can't you ban that site (unless it is my site , pleeaaaseee, don't let it be my site (fingers- crossed)?If the attack is a SYN attack, GET attack, POST attack, then it's easy to identify the target (it would be the domain with a TON of requests/second) but the attack from last night was just garbage packets to port 80 on the IP. You can look at it like calling an 800 number and dialing an extension hundreds of times (easy to identify the target) versus calling an 800 number hundreds of times and never choosing an extension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techshots Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 I swear , there's always been some sort of DDOS attack since I've been with you guys. For goodness sakes, isn't there a way to prevent this? Or at least have some sort of backups running while the servers are being tended to? And yes, I am frustrated, you'd think there'd be a prevention plan already in place for this kind of attack already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Software Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Hit 450 yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 It's finished, we're pulling the CD out of the server and rebooting it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 It's finished, we're pulling the CD out of the server and rebooting it now. I may as well start writing the email then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 I swear , there's always been some sort of DDOS attack since I've been with you guys. For goodness sakes, isn't there a way to prevent this?When you find a way to prevent DDoS attacks, do let us know. That's just the same as asking if there is a way to prevent somebody running a red light and totaling your car... Nobody wants that to happen but it happens every day. Or at least have some sort of backups running while the servers are being tended to?I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. And yes, I am frustrated, you'd think there'd be a prevention plan already in place for this kind of attack already?There is no good way to prevent a DDoS attack, I wish there were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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