[img]http://i.minus.com/iCWJJnJRvuXq0.PNG[/img]
That's the past year of bandwidth. As you can see the past 3-5 months we've seen increased attacks to the site. In the summer we actually had a relatively quiet time. From Feb 2012-June 2012 we had regular attacks.
However the past few months some butthurt people are really intent on attacking the site. Overall they are not effective but they do disrupt the site long enough for people to notice.
I announced some changes a couple months ago where I mentioned that I'll be purchasing new servers for setup. Well this morning I spoke with a new datacenter. We may not move but what I might do is hedge our serving to two or even three datacenters.
Some additional code has to be written to make sure what HF does remains working. I'll have to setup and secure these additional servers as well. I do not rent managed servers. I self manage the entire HF setup. So it takes up some of my time making sure we're operational.
I expect within 60 days that these style attacks will be greatly diminished because we'll increase our mitigation making attacks of these nature pointless.
I knew eventually I would need to take this next step so this isn't unexpected or unplanned. The hard part is not the implementation though. The hard part is actually just finding the spare time to build all this up. But looking at the chart for bandwidth and seeing how much attacks have increased I think I'm left with no option but to get this done asap.
Thanks.
That's the past year of bandwidth. As you can see the past 3-5 months we've seen increased attacks to the site. In the summer we actually had a relatively quiet time. From Feb 2012-June 2012 we had regular attacks.
However the past few months some butthurt people are really intent on attacking the site. Overall they are not effective but they do disrupt the site long enough for people to notice.
I announced some changes a couple months ago where I mentioned that I'll be purchasing new servers for setup. Well this morning I spoke with a new datacenter. We may not move but what I might do is hedge our serving to two or even three datacenters.
Some additional code has to be written to make sure what HF does remains working. I'll have to setup and secure these additional servers as well. I do not rent managed servers. I self manage the entire HF setup. So it takes up some of my time making sure we're operational.
I expect within 60 days that these style attacks will be greatly diminished because we'll increase our mitigation making attacks of these nature pointless.
I knew eventually I would need to take this next step so this isn't unexpected or unplanned. The hard part is not the implementation though. The hard part is actually just finding the spare time to build all this up. But looking at the chart for bandwidth and seeing how much attacks have increased I think I'm left with no option but to get this done asap.
Thanks.




![[Image: VTs6K6A.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/VTs6K6A.gif)
![[Image: 2PjRx.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/2PjRx.gif)
![[Image: V6eqFub.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/V6eqFub.gif)