Further DDoS Attack on Rackspace?
30th August, 2003
Rackspace's site was down for around two and a half hours early this morning [BST], in what may likely have been a repeat of Tuesday's distributed denial of service attack.
The response times to our own performance collector on Rackspace's network indicate that the attack did not adversely affect response times to other machines at Rackspace.
Posted by Mike Prettejohn in Hosting, Performance, Security
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