Website Under Attack Update 2

Since I posted the original news about our site being attacked, there are many more attempts in bring down our site.

We’ve been in touch with our web hosting company and extra measures are taken to help us defending the site. All the work done these two days should be sufficient for now to keep our website in good shape even under the same kind of attack. Hopefully this waves of attacks will end soon.

The attack is not limited to our site only as a large scale attack on all wordpress based websites has started since the beginning of year 2014. Early this month, several websites belonging to large companies were taken down from hours to several days.

Our original defense mechanism was able to fend off many attacks (every day more than a few thousand tries). But the problem has escalated to burst of several thousand hits within minutes many times lately. That stalled our server to not accessible to regular users and members from time to time.

We’ve done all we can within such a short time period. Should we find that these attacks continue to affect our website we will expand our resolution to include more sophisticated technology to deal with the problem.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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