Aweber down for 2 days? Really?

They say they're experiencing a DDoS attack. There seems to be a lot of that going on lately!

Yeah, I logged in here to find out if it was happening to me alone only to see this post first thing as I logged in.

Wonder whats going on?

(Distributed Denial of Service) A DDos attack is bad news for anyone using a server affected by it.

So what happens when someone decides to do a DDoS attack against Amazon...will your mailing software work then?

What software do you recommend?

I've been wanting to go more independent for years. But then again when using Amazon you have restrictions that they put on you that you would not have to do if you completely managed your own email solution.

In short, you're using someone else's system. Which is similar to just using Aweber. So why go through the extra difficulty and expense? (I'd actually like to know your perspective Brian. Because I want out of the Aweber limitations.)

Either way, I'd be curious as to what mailing software you use.

I was thinking of ARP Reach but they didn't have a way to handle the spam complaints properly. Otherwise I might use them.

Thanks,

Roger

I've been curious about this. How can I go about doing that?

I am using interspire email script with Amazon SES. It's working great and cheaper in the long run.

I'm fairly sure they did. Spamhaus certainly did, and they got blown off the net for a while a few weeks back.

The available firepower for these attacks just keeps growing. They've recently gone more toward zombieing servers, which make serious bitcannons.

Sad thing is, most of this stuff could be prevented if server admins were more responsible about configuration.


Paul

A week is a long time in the internet marketing world. SMH

tpspress,

I would expect the billing system to be on a different connection than the production servers. That's just good data security for systems that handle credit card info and the like.

I couldn't comment on the rest of your post, but that part, at least, makes perfect sense to me.


Paul

Just noticed that, the website is not accessible, hope it'll be back soon.

Saw that on their site too, big relief because I just started a campaign using a LeadPages squeeze page the other day.

And unprofessional that they didn't send out a mass email to all clients notifying us to pause our advertising campaigns.

Kim, If you don't stop posting repetitive drivel for the sake of sig file exposure, you're soon going to find you no longer have a signature. Or War Room membership, since removing that is required in order to turn off your sig.


Paul

Here is the latest update-

DDOS attack

Incident Report for AWeber

An Incident Update Has Been Posted

Our engineering team has the site coming back up. New IPs were configured that will need to be distributed across the Internet. Many customers are able to access their accounts again, web forms are being displayed, click tracking links are redirecting properly, and new subscribers are being accepted. If you are not able to access the site currently, it may take up to a few hours for the changes to reach your ISP. Thank you again for your patience as we mitigate this massive DDoS attack.

Feb 26, 00:55 EST

Kim, You consistently post to multiple threads, almost every day, and say things which either make no sense in context or which repeat points already made by other people. Your posts very rarely add anything of substance or value to any of those threads.

The very clear impression is that you're commenting without reading, for purposes of getting signature file exposure. It is sufficiently clear that 3 separate people regularly report your posts on those bases.

The fact that English is a second language for you is not even relevant. You speak English far better than I speak any of the other languages of your country.

What IS relevant is the fact that you persistently and casually waste the time and energy of the other people using this forum.

If you don't have something useful to add to a discussion which hasn't already been said, please consider whether your comments benefit anyone but yourself before posting.


Paul

Was back in at around 10.45am in UK; everything intact

My guess is that they're not 100% back online. While I can log into the the site, the form on my site is still not showing. Also, I bet that a lot of people just recently sent out broadcasts which might slow things down for a bit.

I tried that, and designing a new form, and entering the new snippet code in a widget. Didn't change anything, forms still not showing for me.

I'm new to Aweber, it seems from comments on here, it maybe a case of "Just waiting" for it to sort itself out in your location.

I think we should pool together a bounty for the heads of those responsible for the DDos attack. I mean, what was the motivation for this...to hurt what is mostly small to medium sized business owners? I know a lot of us saw a dip in sign ups and sales yesterday..and my thinking is a hacker can't type without fingers...hahaha.

Actually, Hostgater has been really bad lately
because they were just bought out.

Yes, finally, my forms are also showing up. Thank goodness! My launch was a nightmare thanks to the complete mistiming though...

Hope they don't have any more attack.