03:30AM CDT:

69.197.175.x: Server is currently down due to unknown reasons. Contacted datacenter to check the health of the system. Should have it up shortly, it does appear it may have lost power. This will affect a small number of shared hosting subscribers only. Please contact support at: support@serverorigin.com to place a ticket.

04:00AM –RESOLVED

ServerOrigin.Com – ServerOrigin Management Group:

We’re proud to announce our ethProxy service now has a website it can call home.

http://www.ethproxy.com

Several Software Modifications:

• Additional layer of filtering added for SYN flood attacks.
• Integration of filtering rules across all sites. (All sites used by the ethProxy service will now dynamically adhere to policies customized across other sites. Now tracking up to 1.2 Million IP’s)
• Smart-filtering based on # of times the offender has hit the offender list.
• Database-driven filtering with in-memory database caching.
• RAM upgrade to all filtering routers.
• Increased overall protection by another 3Gbps.

DDoS protection and DDoS protected hosting has never looked so good! And guess what? We do it while being cheaper than anyone else on the market with *real* protection!

–CEO Statement:

To explain the statement above with a little more clarity… I’d like to say that we monitor Google/Yahoo! on a daily basis and we’re watching our competition like any good business would do. We want to know what others are offering and we want to integrate their good ideas with our own. Why not? It works and it works well because we’re picking up corporate clients on a daily basis. In six months time we are protecting more website than the largest provider on the market (***lexic). We offer genuine no-frills DDoS protection that works.

You ask, “So Kevin what are you getting at?”.

I’m simply stating that we see DDoS companies show up every day. They drop $7,000 and buy an appliance with an honest plan to step into the arena of DDoS protection. The issue lies in the fact that most of those companies do not have expertise in this field and do not fully understand what they are asking for. They believe they can buy a 1Gbps appliance and protect 10 servers or half a datacenter and it just isn’t the case. ServerOrigin.Com gets hit with nearly 9Gbps attacks once a month. There isn’t an out-of-the-box appliance that scales into the 10Gbps market and provides enough protection to keep an end-server online.  Our product is a creation based on countless years of experience and a multi-year effort to custom write a back-end clustered scrubbing/filtering environment that can handle attacks 8-10x as large as what hit twitter. We are more than 1 million dollars into this business with additional infrastructure being added daily to keep up with demand.

This market is being flooded with providers claiming to offer protection and it is alarming. It’s good for our business because they normally end up with us when the competitor’s product doesn’t work. Although, it’s the consumer that’s really getting the short end of the stick and it’s a shame to see so many people being taken advantage of in their time of need. We hope to change the way people see DDoS protection and we hope to show the masses that we will be the best available option on the market.

– Just a note to the consumer:

Please do your research before purchasing DDoS protection and don’t buy based on just how pretty the website is. It is almost like buying a car. Ask for a test-drive! I am unsure about other providers but I know we will stand up protection for you within 30 minutes! We will offer you a trial period and if we can’t stop the attack, you’ll never get a bill. We guarantee that we can stop your attacks or we’ll refund the entire amount. No other provider in the industry offers that guarantee.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kevin H.

ServerOrigin.Com / ethProxy.Com