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“It means that we are getting popular”

Well if this is what it means to be popular, I am not sure its a good thing.

Yesterday we came under attack from a DDOS attack…There were 10 IPs involved in the attack and they were trying to flood our servers to bring them down. We detected the attack quickly and tuned our firewall to block the attack…it took a while as we were trying to get the IPs etc. of the attackers from the same machine that was under attack.

We take the quality of our service very seriously and this was the first time we were down in months. I want to assure you that we are talking all the steps we can to ensure that such attacks do not happen again and if they do happen, they have no effect on the service. Following are the things we are doing:

1. Tracking down the attackers

2. Improving our Firewall service with a number of additional automated rules

3. Laying out our applications in a distributed setup so that we are able to communicate with the users even when we are under attack

Anything else we should do? Let us know?