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Minor outage Friday morning

Rasmus Rønn Nielsen, The Dudes 14 September 2012, 11:58

An hour ago, virtualmanager.com were exposed to a so-called DOS attack.

This kind of attack is done by one or more individuals sending millions of requests toward a certain destination with the intent of overloading it. This is often done using botnets.

Due to the huge amount of incoming data, we had to shut down the site temporarily.

We asked our hosting center to block the attacking IPs. They have the capacity to filter such things.

The IPs are now blocked and everything is running as usual. The auction that should've ended while the site was down have been postponed by two hours.