With the world changing its data storage methodologies and moving to cloud storage, things have become more transparent and safer for storing and accessing files in the easiest way possible. However, most things that are free come with drawbacks, which could be dangerous for your business. Cyber-attacks and deadly viruses can wipe out your servers and lead to a permanent loss of data. Regular occurrence of these threats has resulted in companies opting for DDoS…
Earlier last week, we faced a Denial of Service attack on our DNS Servers which resulted in disruption of services for several resellers. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and disruption caused by the issue and as promised, here is a debrief. Following this unfortunate incident, we conducted a complete root cause analysis. Here’s what went on and what we’re doing to deal with potential future attacks. Updates, Root cause analysis and Plan of action: Over the last few…
The guys from the ResellerClub Hosting Summit team have created a Retro-styled game aimed specifically at the Hosting Industry! It’s an asteroid mod game very reminiscent of Space Invaders. In the RCHS game your Server is under a DDOS attack! (What’s a DDOS Attack?). Incoming PINGs are attempting to take it down and you are the only thing between uptime and a server crash. You can use your mouse to point and click to shoot.…
The internet is abuzz with talks of the recent outage faced by Domain Registrar Godaddy. The outage was suspected to be because of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (commonly known as a DDoS attack) that targeted Godaddy’s DNS servers, affecting several websites as well as email services. (However, a recent statement by Godaddy mentions that it was an internal network error that caused the interruption in services) DDoS attacks are a fairly common occurrence…
