Somebody used there BotNet on my site recently(In the last 5 hours) We have been down for about 4 1/2 out of the 5 hours he started. Why did he do it? Well the reason i got from the person who is sending the attack is because he did not like one of my moderators. Nice reason to illegally take down somebody's site, eh? I was wondering if theres some way to stop his attacks? Or if anybody knows of a host that can protect this.
1. chose your moderators better even better do ALL moderating yourself to make sure you never offend someone else! 2. deny access to the "agent" he is using >> .htaccess 3. block IP if known number if IPs are used >> iptables
if they are good and using UDP get more bandwidth. if they are good and using tcp syn use Cisco tcp-intercept before trying that contact your upstream provider before you get hit with a large overage. Even with a server side firewall you will still be billed for the traffic as it still reaches your server.