Attacking a datacenter
One company - I am not going to mention the name - seems to have bad luck with the datacenter they decided to go with - their servers are - according to the host - being attacked and this happenes quite a few times in the last 3 weeks. Result: the servers go down.
Ok, at my full-time job we are running several web sites with quite some traffic. How comes that we never get such heavy attacks that our servers go down? I assume that even if the web host has 200 sites on each server that many sites are low profile and with medium exposure - why would it get more attacked than a site of a Fortune 1000 company?
I get the bad feeling that either datacenters or web hosts are hiding behind this 'excuse' "We're being attacked!". Yes, attacks can happen but why would it happen to the same 'guy' that often and not hitting other ones?!
What is your experience and how do you feel in regards to this? In my eyes - if you want to attack servers on the Internet - wouldn't you choose some where the impact is visible and you cann see it on CNN and tell your friends about it?! Who really cares if Joe Blow's site disappears?
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