i completely agree

Quote Originally Posted by boyfunk
To be fair to ccbill, denial-of-service attacks, if well planned by the attackers, can be extremely difficult to defend.

What you have is tens of thousands of compromised machines, all sending requests at the same time, overloading the circuits and blocking or limiting access to legitimate traffic. This is similar to what MensNiche.com experienced some weeks ago.

It's not as simple as blocking the IPs from which the attacks are coming from, because there's not common element to them. And many of the more sophisticated attacks are capable of "learning" and shifting their attack methods as network engineers block the traffic.

So, in my book, even though it cost us (as a ccbill-serviced membership site) money to have ccbill inaccessible, I still applaud CCBill's quick response in addressing the problem and doing their best to get it under control as quickly as possible.