Thread: BCG Down Time

Bad news for the BCG users.

We have been in the midst of a massive DDos attack (hosts words not mine) and its still going on, we have just had someone in our IRC waitingroom saying they are responsible for it. reasons are.

1: having crappy servers with all the donation money

The servers cost me $4,000 each, we have 2, they also cost $700+ per month to keep going, and we only get about 200 donors a month. I wish i could go and spend $20,000 on a new server or 2, but its just not possible.

2: The Game companies asked them to do it

DDos is illegal, so i very much doubt this

3: We have 3 days to close completely, or the game companies are going to start legal proceedings against us.

Will believe it when i see it happening, not from a DDosser.

We are doing everything in our power to get the site stable again, but there isnt a lot we can do (just ask sony and psn) about a massive DDos attack, so you will just have to have a lot of patience while we try to get it stable (which could take awhile, usually you just have to wait a ddos attack out for the most part and hope they get bored).

Source: BCG home page

ouch. this hurts.

That isn't good. I just got BCG a couple days before this :(

I think the outage may be affecting their ability to track ratios as well. I was unlucky enough to download a game right before the outage. During the outage I was unable to seed any part of the game (may be unrelated). Once it (kinda) got back up a few days ago, I was able to seed again. What does puzzle me is why my seedbox is saying I've uploaded almost 18 GB over the past few days while BCG only registered 13GB. Not a real big deal due to their SP, but just kinda annoying, since the discrepancy puts me below a 1:1 ratio.

Filelist.ro had same problem and they began to use Linux Security Group :: DDoS Protection & IT Solutions services