Host with blacklotus, buy a dedicated server behind their 10Gbps native ddos protection, fuck these blackmailers. It's $400/mth, but maybe you can cut a deal with them so they can accept bitcoins for payment.
Cloudflare is just scrubbing traffic they are not at all ddos protection
Topic: BitInstant getting hit by a DDoS attack? (Read 5067 times)
I don't need the slip if I can just get the information that goes on it. I have half of it memorized.
System is back and working
I don't need the slip if I can just get the information that goes on it. I have half of it memorized.
I can make it through the process all the way where it gets to "Create Payment Slip" and that button does nothing but turn white when I click on it.
That is exactly what I'm seeing, and I need to get some coins NOW before the friday sale wraps up! I'll PM Yankee and see if he can get in touch with the ZipZap folks.
Just wanted to let you know that we are still working on resolving this as soon as possible. I don't have a firm ETA on a fix yet but hopefully tonight
-Charlie
I can make it through the process all the way where it gets to "Create Payment Slip" and that button does nothing but turn white when I click on it.
That is exactly what I'm seeing, and I need to get some coins NOW before the friday sale wraps up! I'll PM Yankee and see if he can get in touch with the ZipZap folks.
Who stands to gain from DDOS-ing bitinstant? 
Maybe a currency manipulator wanting to create a short term panic to buy in low
I can make it through the process all the way where it gets to "Create Payment Slip" and that button does nothing but turn white when I click on it.
Aha! So did I! My captcha wasn't loading on Chrome or IE, which is bizarre. Thanks for the suggestion!
Fixed!
Still having problems with both chrome and firefox, cannot pass captcha page.
Erased cache, use different pc, no luck.
Aha! So did I! My captcha wasn't loading on Chrome or IE, which is bizarre. Thanks for the suggestion!
Fixed!
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Aha! So did I! My captcha wasn't loading on Chrome or IE, which is bizarre. Thanks for the suggestion!
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I hate to post in two threads, but I don't know if my post in the other thread will get noticed.
I'm still having trouble accessing the site. I can get the form to specify input and destination for the transfer, put in my info, etc, but then when I go to generate the money-transfer form I get either a page that says "none", or an offline cached version of the transaction form, missing all images and such. Is this a known issue?
I'm still having trouble accessing the site. I can get the form to specify input and destination for the transfer, put in my info, etc, but then when I go to generate the money-transfer form I get either a page that says "none", or an offline cached version of the transaction form, missing all images and such. Is this a known issue?
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Second one went out shortly after. Sorry for the delay, but when you do 2 transfers similar amounts and close to each other our fraud filter will ask us to approve the second one, which we did.
Thanks
Thanks
I understand about the fraud filter, however I only received one of the two transactions.
Responded to your PM.
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He sent us an email with a 10,000 BTC ransom.
Ransom payment is the killer app that will cause bitcoin to take off. Why don't they go after higher value targets?
Maybe the best defense is too find a higher value target, email the attacker and say hit this guy instead. He can afford to pay your 10k BTC.
i made the stupid mistake of making two deposits tonight. one went through immediately but the second one, sent at exactly the same time, isn't even showing up on blockchain.info ... it's been about 3+ hours.
it's been about 3+ hours.Second one went out shortly after. Sorry for the delay, but when you do 2 transfers similar amounts and close to each other our fraud filter will ask us to approve the second one, which we did.
Thanks
Don't try to use a service that is currently weathering a DDOS attack, that's just stupid for a large variety of reasons.
Name one.Avoiding use of services under DDOS only makes DDOS more successful, doesn't it?
Two really simple ones are:
You are adding your own attempts at connecting to and using their service to the large pile of illegitimate ones, essentially adding a small amount of fuel to the fire. If we were talking about one user then that's not really any extra problem but usually it's 100s of users all trying to get access to do whatever they wanted to do with the service which just makes the DDOS that much worse.
You will likely run into all sorts of bugs from lag and overworked hardware on the server side. Maybe not a big deal if your favorite videogame server is being DDOSed, you might die to lag. If you are dealing with financial transactions though the risk is obviously different. See the post above this one for an example.
Those are the big reasons you should lay off of a service in the midst of a DDOS that is heavily affecting their server(s). When the storm is over or when they harden themselves with more hardware or better protections then of course resume.
Don't try to use a service that is currently weathering a DDOS attack, that's just stupid for a large variety of reasons.
Name one.Avoiding use of services under DDOS only makes DDOS more successful, doesn't it?
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