Scopehosts big downtime and DDOS on shared & reseller hosting

[Drinkordie]

Like in topic, they write something like this on their "support" forum:

We had to take all our shared & reseller hosting servers for major upgradation. As latest exploit had been released on the present kernel and we had a pending cpanel updation schedule.

Both the features are being updated along with latest version of apache , php and other modules .

As its a necessary updation.

Maintenance might time period of 12-24hours . We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to all clients.

Suitable Compensation will be provided to all clients .

Out of 5 Shared And Reseller Hosting Servers . 4 Of them Are Over . The Server with IP: 89.149.244.xxx Is having issue of Heavy DDOS attack while the maintenance is in progress . We Have controlled 50% off the attack within 12hours now . Presently we are seeking help of Datacenter Network Team resolve this issue completely as soon as possible. So that service resume smoothly as before.

We assure all clients of this particular server to get best of the compensation from us. As this is the 1st major downtime of this server .

We will be keep on Updating all clients regarding this issue at this thread.

My sites are down from 3 days and they dosent write me any sensible answers ... Do you think that I should change hosting or wait another "x" days ?

Drinkordie Reviewed by Drinkordie on 15th Jun 2011. Scopehosts big downtime and DDOS on shared & reseller hosting Like in topic, they write something like this on their "support" forum: My sites are down from 3 days and they dosent write me any sensible answers ... Do you think that I should change hosting or wait another "x" days ? :O Rating: 5

[NewEraCracker]

Oh yeah. Every host should upgrade. The issue they want to have sorted is the issue that ALL hosts should have sorted already (but didn't, well apart from a few I know).

So when you see this post, please update your server or get owned by a script kiddie very soon.

[Drinkordie]

exactly, NewEraCracker, but 3 days of maintenance and in my case of downtime its bit to much im starting to have bad feeling about this :/

[NewEraCracker]

If you do have a bad feeling about this, move to another host. There is not much you can do.

[Gavo]

The only downtime you should get from a kernel update is a reboot when your done (2 min).

[Aquickhost]

Things happen unexpectedly to every host, so since Scopehosts has had DDoS attack, surely it will take time to mitigate it. But i think they are taking a bit longer than normal.

[Drinkordie]

Things happen unexpectedly to every host, so since Scopehosts has had DDoS attack, surely it will take time to mitigate it. But i think they are taking a bit longer than normal.

Yeah I think that too, I have friend and he has very big warez site in Poland, his site was attacked so many times but even strongest DDoS attack he has doesn't take much time then 2 - 3 days.

[Aquickhost]

Yeah I think that too, I have friend and he has very big warez site in Poland, his site was attacked so many times but even strongest DDoS attack he has doesn't take much time then 2 - 3 days.

Yup that's true. Our servers were DDoSed too, we were back within 12 hours and backups restored in 2-3 hours. Also protection against strong DDoS attacks is really necessary, as I have realized.

[joegamer]

3 Days down now, i lose money and visitors. That's really BS.

[accyuklad]

i reckon they finally gived up trying to fix it and ran with the profit they made