After the past days of issues, I believe everyone deserves an explanation.
Over the last 3-5 days, our website has been under numerous DDOS attacks. Our webhoster at that time had requested that we move servers in the next 14 days due to the attacks. They were mitigated, hence why we didn't receive much downtime. 5 days later, I decided to move hosts. I purchased a 6 month webhosting plan and began using them. 2 hours after having them as our webhost, (this was when many couldn't access Rune Gear), we were notified that our servers have been subject to more DDOS attacks. They suspended our account and are sending a refund. At this time, the nameservers were still updating. We decided to move back to our old webhost, as we still had 11 days with them. This had been the 2nd change of the nameservers in under a 6 hour period.
Then, to our avail, we were offered a generous plan at $15/mo by Rune Gear's previous host. They offered DDOS protection of attacks up to 1GBit/s, the attacks we received were only 40MBit/s. We are now hosted by them, the service is extremely stable and efficient.
Due to the numerous nameserver changes, you may not have stable viewing/experience of www.RuneGear.net, give this 48-72 hours, although the changes should be stable now.
People thinking that DDOS attacks will take down Rune Gear are seriously mistaken. I've said this before, and will say it again. I'm keeping Rune Gear going no matter how small or large the attacks are. We don't comply with minuscule threats. Rune Gear is here to stay.
Please post feedback about the speeds of the server, that would be appreciated.
- The Elite
Over the last 3-5 days, our website has been under numerous DDOS attacks. Our webhoster at that time had requested that we move servers in the next 14 days due to the attacks. They were mitigated, hence why we didn't receive much downtime. 5 days later, I decided to move hosts. I purchased a 6 month webhosting plan and began using them. 2 hours after having them as our webhost, (this was when many couldn't access Rune Gear), we were notified that our servers have been subject to more DDOS attacks. They suspended our account and are sending a refund. At this time, the nameservers were still updating. We decided to move back to our old webhost, as we still had 11 days with them. This had been the 2nd change of the nameservers in under a 6 hour period.
Then, to our avail, we were offered a generous plan at $15/mo by Rune Gear's previous host. They offered DDOS protection of attacks up to 1GBit/s, the attacks we received were only 40MBit/s. We are now hosted by them, the service is extremely stable and efficient.
Due to the numerous nameserver changes, you may not have stable viewing/experience of www.RuneGear.net, give this 48-72 hours, although the changes should be stable now.
People thinking that DDOS attacks will take down Rune Gear are seriously mistaken. I've said this before, and will say it again. I'm keeping Rune Gear going no matter how small or large the attacks are. We don't comply with minuscule threats. Rune Gear is here to stay.
Please post feedback about the speeds of the server, that would be appreciated.
- The Elite
