Continued DDoS Woes!

We're working on getting more servers and dedicated circuits, but we're finding out this is starting to cost beyond our reach. Both Computer Cops and Nuke Cops are growing so large so fast, that the script kiddies running DDoS attacks on us and the popularity brought on by our registered members is taking us into realms that cost a lot to stay alive.

I'm basically putting out a notice to everyone, that unless I can get some sort of serious funding to continue operating then these may be the final days of the sites being in operation. The bad guys are hitting us the only way they can... in the wallet. It'd break my heart to see this place go away because growth has gone far beyond the funding at hand.

Our host told us the attack initiated on Nuke Cops, switched to Computer Cops, and went back to Nuke Cops. As of noon today, we have no additional information on the attacks. However currently, Nuke Cops has been taken offline and will be assigned a new IP in the hopes that attacks can be curbed for the short term. Nuke Cops recently released an application called Fortress™ with a pre-released version of Ban On Demand™ that protects PHP-Nuke websites from all SQL injections and bans attacks immediately. It appears Fortress™ is such a success, that both sites have been targetted -- at least, that is what timing appears to be.

The attacks appear to have started sometime Saturday, we're unsure right now. However, even though Computer Cops is currently working, we do not know if it'll continue like this since the attackers may opt to swing here again.

Insofar as uptime has been, please see the following 36 hour MRTG graphs. The first is for the mysql server, the second is for the web server. Both were taken at 8:37PM EDT.