Another DDoS attack on the site, Just in time for the new year Options

[SirAndy]

We were the target of yet another DDoS attack over the past few days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

The attacker(s) managed to bring the server down by draining it of all resources. I've been working with our hosting company on a more permanent solution since this has become a somewhat frequent occurrence.
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Please let me know if there are any problems with the site, errors or other things not working properly.
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[technicalninja]

@SirAndy
What is the purpose of a DDoS attack on a site like this?
Looks like work with no gain to me.
Why is it worth their time to jack up a niche site?

My guess is they are probably doing a test run for some major attack on some valuable targets.
These are quite literally distributed attacks from thousands of hacked computers all around the world.
They're probably doing these tests to make sure they still have control over those computers before launching the real attack.
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Looks like i called it. The attack on our server has been going on for a month and peaked yesterday just in time for the attack on X (Twitter).
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X hit with multiple outages

The social media site X, previously known as Twitter, experienced multiple global outages Monday. Tens of thousands reported issues with X just before 6 a.m EST, based on data collected by DownDetector, before it was restored and then taken offline again multiple times, with subsequent incident reports spiking around 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The cause of the issue was not immediately clear, although the repeat outages suggest a DDOS attack.

Have the attacks on 914World diminished since the start of the X attacks?

That would be interesting...