Weird Asia News

So I posted a few articles out and one of them was on its way to being on Digg front page but I figured it had a 50/50 shot and decided to grab some dinner. My phone goes off with a message saying my site is under DOS Attack and has been suspended to save the server from damage.

Needless to say I run home and jump on to find all my web sites have Suspended banners across them showing the whole world my sites have been shot down.

I jump over to Digg only to see what i expected to see, a front page article. So instantly I am dying cause I just sat on Good Karma and said that i have a simple hosting plan and never drop to the Digg Effect.

So of course i message the server company, SiteGround.com, and try to figure out what is going on. I send them a link to the Digg article and ask them how they could possible not have the ability to see it as legit traffic and not a DOS Attack.

“During the last 24 hours we have detected a severe DOS attack on your website (also known as flooding). DOS attacks are usually an abnormally high number of simultaneous connections to your website allmysites.com resulting in service failure for your website and the host server.

Due to the severity of this attack and the negative impact it has on your site and the whole server, we had to suspend your hosting account. SiteGround will no longer be able to provide your website with shared hosting services, because the DOS attack to your account is endangering the shared server performance and may result in downtime for all other customers’ websites hosted on the server.

The only option to continue to have your website hosted by SiteGround is to upgrade your account to a VPS service. This upgrade can be ordered from the Extra Features section of your Customer Area.”

So of course it is not the security and safety of the server I am on so much as the fact I am not paying quite enough and should pay about 80 bucks more a month to have my site back.

Further communication got me this statement about the concern they had for my site.

“I have checked the case and from the logs that we have it seems that there was over 400 simultaneous queries from different ip addresses to your site every second unfortunately this is quite a lot for a shared hosting account, because it could affect the overall performance of the server. “

Of course my stats show that i had about 2,000 visitors from Digg before the server went down so it must have taken a whole 5 seconds for the server to suspend my sites. So needless to say i am now forced to eat my words in regards to my stance on small no-name server companies. Apparently some crap companies like SiteGround.com can screw you royally. Bad thing is i am not even sure if they will refund me for the remaining 8 months prepaid hosting i have…

Technically i didnt actually have my server die from the Digg Effect but instead they got so scared by it they shit themsleves suspending all my sites for fear of server damage… ie not making enough money off a site that has traffic.

So now we have to worry about the “Digg Fear Factor”… ROFL

This weird news entry was posted on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 at 8:50 pm by Sun Tzu. You can leave a response telling Sun Tzu how much you love this post, or trackback from your own site.