Forum bandwidth on weekends

Why do the forums always load much more slowly on the weekend. There are times when it takes several times to access one page and takes forever to post a comment.

 

Botnets attacking the server more frequently.

 

Though I don't understand why there is no good anti-ddos protection. Even the hosting should supply that.

 

so that month i could get onto sythe and the countless times i couldnt acces my favorite site was botnets?
(ps thats not sarcarm im seriously saying is that it?)

 

Yes or you were blocked by the anti-DDoS script which seemed to ban everyone not ddosing and the not the ones actually causing touble.

 

That's painfully true.

 

If you guys are spending soooooo much money on a host, why the hell don't it stop the attacks? You think that would be in with the cost..

 

Anti-ddos isn't as easy as it sounds.. A lot of it involves purchasing very expensive hardware, and a lot of filtering which does not always work... some of the weaker routers and switches meant to mitigate ddos attacks go for $50,000+... I personally think it isn't worth it unless you're hosting a company site where web traffic is necessary for the company to succeed..

Sythe is a high traffic site.. many "anti-ddos" services available on many hosts would not work at all for sythe, even for its natural traffic....


"deal with it"