Because they are big corporations with far greater resources, and server farms throughout the world.

Well, Google and Amazon don't get effected by DDOS attacks that much, because they have more servers. You have to keep in mind that Aweber doesn't have nearly as much revenue as those companies and will therefore experience more downtime for various reasons.

DDoS attacks are scary.

It's all about server muscle.

The significance of a DDoS attack is a variable of two things really... The type of "request" (type of ping/flood) and the diversity (distribution) of the attack.

If there's a MASSIVELY distributed attack - it's a matter of who has more resources. (Targeted server Vs. Botnet).

Arguably, companies like Google and Amazon have just about enough Server power to handle the biggest Botnet in the world. (Arguably).

Smaller companies just don't have that.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, DDoS attacks are a significant (and little-understood) problem for medium sized companies.

(Medium particularly, because they're big enough to be a target, and small enough to be outmuscled from a DDoS perspective).

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This is the 3rd attack in less than a week for Aweber. Man, talk about really hurting yoru business. It makes yo wonder whats going on? Hoping they resolve this soon.

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A Denial of Service attack basically clogs up the server with a ton of traffic and causes the server to overload and crash.

Google and Amazon have massive data centers and tons of server power and because of that they can negate any attack and render it useless. No matter how much traffic the attackers send, it's like a drop in the ocean so to speak.

I am sure some ambitious hackers have tried/still try to attack google and amazon but we don't know about them because they don't manage to take the websites down

If the number of the servers was the case then hostgator wouldn't get hit and I have been hit there 3 or 4 times since 2003 or was it 2002 i started anyways. They have plenty of servers and still get hit.

What da HELL is going on here? The WWIII of the internet address? Statcounter was attacked yesterday too, I couldnt access the tracking data of my sites all day long. I am loosing sales due to aweber's attack.

DAMMIT AWEBER!

Actually "the big boys" do get attacked and taken down at times.

Hacker Arrested for 2008 DDoS Attacks on Amazon.com | PCWorld

DDoS attacks are massive streams of junk data sent to a webserver that overwhelms the internet connections it's using to connect and service legitimate traffic. No data was in any way compromised. Here's a good article about the massive size of some of the most recent attacks.

Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack | CloudFlare Blog

The attacks we've seen the the last few days have been huge and no website that experiences them stays up. AWeber has been in business for 15 years and has successfully deflected dozens of such attacks in the past with security systems already in place. Regardless of what kind of attack mitigation methods used, if you throw a large enough attack at anyone, the site will fail. For the rare attack that you do actually hear about, there are dozens of others that you never hear or see because of all the systems we have in place to mitigate them.

Dig around in Twitter a bit for DDoS, in the last 7 days there have been dozens of attacks on various very well known companies. All have gone down. With the size of these recent attacks and growing trend of even larger attacks we've made numerous significant additional investments in DDoS mitigation services for ongoing protection.

Our team has been working around the clock to prevent the negative effects of these attacks and return all services to 100%. I apologize for any inconvenience these attacks have cause for you or your website visitors.

Wow. Have you been asleep during this whole discussion, or were you just hit with a random urge to post nonsense?

Google and Amazon are, as companies, orders of magnitude larger than Aweber or their peers in the list hosting business. They have far larger network infrastructures, and are thus much tougher targets. And they can spend a lot more on DDoS mitigation because they have a much broader customer base across which to spread those costs.

Simple stuff. Maybe if you spent a few minutes pondering reality instead of spewing whatever vitriol popped into your head as though it were gospel, you'd have thought of those things yourself.

I understand the frustration. I really do. I do not, however, think bashing is an appropriate response to it.


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Snatch, it's not a matter of "not happening again" it's a matter of "When."

What they really need to do is catch a few of these ****s and start putting them in jail for LONG periods of time. I'm talking 5-10 years locked up. This is a form of terrorism. Anyone involved in it needs to be punished harshly.

Well that's because you're going to have a hell of a time attacking one of the biggest cloud farms in the world.

Gaming sites are also getting DDoS attacks thrown at them as well. League of Legends is one of the world's most popular free games with million of players and they're getting hit every single night.

Basically, some bored kid has multiple VPNs and nothing going on in his life so he wants to flex his internet power. Don't worry, he'll be caught just like the other "Anonymous" 4chan lurking internet tough guys that thought they had something to prove.

Down again -

It seems to me that Getresponse.com is going through the same thing. I can not log into my account. Anyone having the same issue with Getresponse?

talfighel - yes, getresponse is down at the moment, aweber is up.

I don't know about what you guys think, but too much violence is happening online and offline, something is may be about to happen...Siria, N Corea, Ukraine, Egypt, Irak etc... and now transferring to the internet...

I am sure they do get DDOS but they have more than enough redundant resources to deal with it. In fact, there was an attempt to bring down the whole Internet by targeting domain name servers a few years ago.

I noticed this issue yesterday actually , hopefully they are able to recoup stronger than before.

It would be a big mess if people were to lose their lists, and other information stored.

One of my mailing lists you cannot edit it correctly and shows up strangely.

Hopefully it gets fixed soon if not I will have to give them a call and go from there.

The key here is to always back up your lists, you never know when something can happen.

Going to backup, didn't do it this month...

It was pretty scary, definitely looking into backup services in the future.