Comment posted Wireless Logic Website Downtime by John Smith.
SmoothHosting, clearly this lack of service was caused by a sudden influx of traffic following the company’s mention on Dragons den this evening (a programme viewed by millions of people), not by any of the activities you mention above.
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July 26th, 2010 10:27 pm
SmoothHosting, clearly this lack of service was caused by a sudden influx of traffic following the company’s mention on Dragons den this evening (a programme viewed by millions of people), not by any of the activities you mention above.
July 26th, 2010 11:24 pm
Dear John,
A sudden raise of high traffic is considered as a DDOS, and more than likely if it was just a high number of people visiting the website the server would have been able to handle it.
Either way, not very well managed.
From what I gather, the server or IP allocated is UK based. It is completely dead now though, even the failover too.
July 26th, 2010 11:33 pm
In addition to my above reply.
They should have really implemented a DNS scan feature that would try and reach the website every x minutes and if it gets no reply then the DNS would change over the pointer for www and root to a secondary IP address / hosting account.
But since they let namesco manage their DNS this cant happen, unless they do it manually, but more than likely the Peter’s IT Tech is asleep.