vbulletin.com? DOWN? OFFLINE?

[Steve Machol]

Originally Posted by Ceuphrasie

Notes from a not-going-to-be-a-new customer:

This is a temporary solution to a very serious and determined DDoAS attacker. Believe me we like this even less than you. However for now we have one choice - protect ourselves from the zombie machines under this attacker's control and keep service open and available for the vast majority of our customers - or let this attacker have his way and knock us completely off the net.

That's our choice right now. The latter scenario is obviously worse for our customers since NO ONE would be able access and of the vB sites.

We are currently investigating better long-term solutions but each of them requires a significant amount of money and time to set up.