Hosting Problems

[Jayson]

Who has experienced DDOS errors, slow time, etc.? How did you deal with the challenge? What did you learn?

 

[Kennedy]

I've never had any DDOS attack or error downtime from the hosting company I'm using to run my forum project. This is why I love the services I'm getting from BlueHost.

 

[Shortie]

It's not too often I experience any kind of DDOS attack or any other issues such as hacking but I have been on the receiving end of it in the past.

I now use Cloudflare where I can and that has helped a lot but also keeping your software and any plugins you use up to date will help a great deal.

 

[Stan]

I been running websites for many years and experienced many DDoS attacks. As @Shortie pointed out, Cloudflare is effective in countering DDoS attacks and concealing your IPs to safeguard against various hacking techniques. However, on a personal note, I've placed a few of my own servers behind a hardware firewall. This strategy has proven successful in thwarting most, if not all, DDoS attacks.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I've never had to deal with a DDOS attack myself, but I've dealt with some downtime in the past. Never with the current hosts I use, but when I tried using Dreamhost my website never seemed to work. I waited for the DNS to update with my domain name, but after 72 hours and still nothing I just went ahead and canceled my plan. I even reached out to customer service and they never replied to my ticket, so I can't recommend this host at all. Heck I've used free hosts in the past and got instant access with no issues. I also don't advise using X10 premium host either since I had a similar issue where my account never was activated yet I paid for the service.

 

[Eric]

You can't suffer DDoS attack when you don't have a website right and that's where I fall into but I've been on several websites/forums which I use and some of them have experienced DDoS attack once in a while. Forum Promotion was one of such forum DDoS attack dealt with last year.

 

[Monster Masterpiece]

You can't suffer DDoS attack when you don't have a website right and that's where I fall into but I've been on several websites/forums which I use and some of them have experienced DDoS attack once in a while. Forum Promotion was one of such forum DDoS attack dealt with last year.

Or you are the only person who is visiting your website or does not have a lot of people that are viewing it. Some websites are small communities. DDOS attacks are for popular forums or websites instead. Hackers choose where to attack.

 

[Nomad]

I once experienced DDoS on my forum, my forum was attacked twice in two days. The issue occurred when someone jealous of the forum where I worked started targeting the staff's website. Because of this attack, I started using Cloudflare for my forum. Apart from this one, I have never encountered any other problems

 

[Nathan]

I don't have a website, so 8 do not have a first hand experience with something called DDoS, but I have seen this happen to multiple websites. I believe this is mainly a work of a competitor

 

[King Belieal]

This was a regular problem that Index Forum used to experience almost on a daily basis till the new admin took over. I think setting up your security well and good communication with the hosting company can make this a distant problem for a site.