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I just renewed my subscription on Saturday. Please don't tell me the site went belly-up.

Anyone know what's up with P411?  The site has been down all day.

I just renewed my subscription on Saturday. Please don't tell me the site went belly-up.

This is what my assistant sent me.
P411 Update:

We are dealing with a Denial of Service attack out of Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

The short version (how I understood it) is that we are being hit over and
over, by thousands of malware infected computers, which is overloading
our servers and bringing the site down. We have people working to block
the attacking ips, during which time the site needs to be completely
offline. Once all of the ips have been blocked, we'll put the site back up.

Thank you for your patience, it's been a rough day for everyone.

Always,
Gina

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P411 is down due to a DDoS attack coming out of China, which is basically a huge amount of computerized traffic, far more than a server can handle. The goal is to render a site useless.

The ddos attack we are experiencing is "massive", and the ISP has blocked all traffic to P411 until it is under control. We've pulled the site completely offline for now.

I am working with numerous tech people to resolve the problem, but taking longer than anyone would like. All I can say is that we are working on it, and we're doing the best we can.

I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,
Gina

Sorry to hear Gina, we've had the same issue on several occasions and we run some pretty heavy duty firewalls. Sadly a BOT-net based DOS attack is pretty sever Mike and I wish you the best.




Sincerely,

Lee Dreams
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