On December 28th, 2013, at approximately 12:21am (Eastern Standard Time), Virtual Hosting Company became the target of a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack.  At that time, multiple servers managed by Virtual Hosting Company began seeing incoming traffic exceeding 100 Mbit/second, resulting in outages and higher than normal latency on our servers.  Unfortunately, the ongoing attacks have left some of our servers with limited capabilities.

At the present time, the ‘Twix’ server has sustained a total of 8 strong-arm attacks, resulting in outages lasting approximately 1-5 minutes during each attack.  ‘Delta’ received the heaviest attack immediately out of the door, exceeding 150 Mbit/second in packets.  Unfortunately, at that time, ‘Delta’ was null-routed to protect the network itself.  ‘Foxtrot’ begun receiving packets at the same time as ‘Twix’ and ‘Delta’; however, the bulk of the attack was targeted towards ‘Delta’, so while ‘Foxtrot’ did see some 1-5 minute outages, it remained online.  ‘Core’ also started seeing packets; however, the attack towards Core was very minimal in comparison.

At approximately 12:30pm, ‘Foxtrot’ received a null-route from the Data Center to prevent any additional damage to the network. 

We’ve been working closely with all of the Data Centers providing connectivity to the Virtual Hosting Company servers.  We’re working closely with the staff in the Data Centers to identify the specific type of attack and better methods of mitigation of such attacks at their Core Routers to better prevent future outages.

We will post a new Announcement when each of the Null-Routes are removed.  Additionally, we’ll be updating the ‘Network Issue’ page to reflect current status. 

Thank you, 


John S Maloney Jr

Virtual Hosting Company



Sunday, December 29, 2013





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