Need help bigtime/Server questions

[jeffreythe00]

Hey everyone.

I'm posting this here because I'm trying to help a friend out who is having ongoing problems with DDoS attacks on his server. Now the information I have about the server he is hosting is very vague and to be honest... Even if I did have that information I would not want to post it publicly since that might tip off the attackers and we would end up null routed.

We are pretty sure we know who our attackers are but there isn't really much we can do right?

Anyway so we are currently looking to migrate to a better host and I was wondering if anyone knows of some good hosts we could switch to that would protect us from such attacks.

I will get our full specs for you guys along with what we need for our server but this info will only be available via PM. Since we are bring very cautious about what we say.


So yeah, ANY information would be very helpful and I would be willing to DONATE $ if you guys could help us solve this once and for all.

Thanks!
Jeff

 

[Lazerbeak]

Maybe checkout Reverse.Net: IRC Shell Accounts They are an IRC host but offer web hosting and are hacker friendly (Matthew is very cool). Maybe employing a service like Cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/ , some pretty high profile groups use them for protection online. If this is an ongoing thing it might be worth it. :thinking:

Best of luck to you and your friend,

~ LB

 

[jeffreythe00]

Thanks LB! However I have to mention that this is for a game server not a web server. A Garry's mod server to be specific.

 

[Lazerbeak]

Oh, gotcha. Sorry not too familiar with that. You can PM some specifics if you want. no promises but I can dig around. Garry's Mod, looks interesting

Well ddos protected game servers do exist. This one is in Europe though, I'm sure there are some U.S. based ones...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1255667

Here's a US/Europe one about $40 a month...

http://www.elitepvpers.com/forum/pr...our-gameserver-protection-us-eu-39-99-mo.html

~ LB

 

[ARG]

I played some PC games before and I server I played on had bad DDoS problems.

The admins knew who it was so one of the clan members who lived nearby knocked on their door and had a peaceful chat. They stopped doing it after that.

The internet allows people to do things that they normally wouldn't because it lacks the personal element.

It's not a great solution, but it works.

 

[Lazerbeak]

That's actually kind of cool ARG, in a IRL old school kind of way

~ LB

 

[NKO29]

if they have a static ip then deny it...

 

[jeffreythe00]

^ I dont have access to the server to say if the IP's are static or dynamic. However at the moment the problem is escalating quickly. Our technical bandwidth protection we get from a company called black lotus is 2GB/s. Im not sure how much they handle if rhe the attacks are bursted. We went from getting attacks that made our servers lag to being null-routed for 6 hours daily.

Believe these attacks are coming from our competition and right now we are powerless to stop it and its getting worse. So we believe they are using booters and a rented botnet with spoofed IP's

 

[Things]

Definitely time to switch hosts if they can't handle a DDoS attack. Unfortunately my only experience with gameservers is AU based ones