All servers offline for max 25 hours

[Spasm]

Still though I am confused why they did not attack the website too. An attack that large could take down our entire web host not just this site.

So who did you piss off zero?

[H.Bitch]

God damnit, I have nothing to do now. My Gmod Stranded server is having serious lag issues and now the only CS:S servers I go on are down.. FUCK!

[Steamer]

The cost to someone / a group with thousands of zombies is not much of a concern. With today's ISP speeds it isn't much of a cost/problem. I mean.. today... a few Gigabits of info isn't all that much combined power.

If someone is pissed and if they really wanted to hurt things everything would be shut down. Sounds like exactly what you already said, someone out there wants your traffic or it is one weird fu*k up.

[Snipe1002]

screw up or not, i love the zombie server, and now i cant do shit because some tards wanna screw with ibis traffic or w/e. Idk much about networking, my expertise is in hardware and software in the computer, not what connects it, but like steamer was saying that would be true, it wouldnt take much to bombard someone with a ton of traffic, for instance most people have 30 down and 15 up for network speeds if they love to play on the internet, possibly more depending on the isp, but lets say that everyones upload speed is 20 MBit/s , it would only take 50 people to bombard the site with garbage to clog the bandwidth at 1GBit, sounds like the work of a bunch of angry players maybe? or maybe someone has connections with Anonymous? << lol probably not, but either way it wouldnt take much with the right know how and the will to do it.

[ZERO]

Actually while your may think your internet is that fast in reality it is not. The actual effective upload speeds are much lower and relative to the number of packets sent out. This amount of data transmission requires a fairly large size bot net or servers with a good amount of bandwidth.

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I am going to be contacting them again late tonight to see if they can get the server on earlier. This way people can still play tomorrow morning and early afternoon.

[Evil]

lol...no wonder I couldn't see any of the servers online...I was thinking that I might of messed up my profile or something...

[X 1 Viper1]

Maybe someone that only gets overflow traffic from our servers is doing this, so that the people who would normally go play there?

AKA SMUT

Any thoughts?

[surreality]

Don't understand why anyone would ddos IBIS. not like there's anything to gain from it. if i were you i would contact the police just in-case it is a ddos and not some network error..They prob wouldn't be able to help but i mean it's worth a try..

[ZERO]

If there was anything legal that could be done the provider would have already done so. As DDOS attacks cost data centers millions of dollars every year.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Maybe someone that only gets overflow traffic from our servers is doing this, so that the people who would normally go play there?

AKA SMUT

Any thoughts?

doubtful. remember, they're "so much better than us" that they wouldn't use something like this. after all, when you've convinced yourself that you're the best, what's the point in attacking someone else?