Thank you everyone for showing concerns over the down times we have faced lately. As you might know, ProPakistani is being DDoS attacked of multi-gigabyte per second in size, which we have been fighting for over a week now.
DDoS attacks are ugly, for any one in any situation. There’s no hard solution to keep yourself safe from such denial of service attacks, no matter how effective infrastructure you have deployed to safeguard you.
As a matter of fact, our previous host (WiredTree) asked us to leave their network because such massive DDoS attacks were impacting their other customers. Later on no hosting service provider was accepting to host us because of these DDoS attacks.
This was when our friends at Server4Sale Pakistan helped us in getting us out of the situation and to get our website back live. Thumbs up for Server4Sale.
ProPakistani not Opening for You?
As you may understand that we had to enhance the firewall and security of our server to better fight DDoS attacks. Resultantly, many IPs (1 to 2 percent of whole traffic) are being blocked by the firewall that it mistakenly considers as an attack.
Though these IPs are regularly whitelisted again, after a certain duration though, but you can you meanwhile use Proxy websites to access ProPakistani. Otherwise you can also restart your router/modem to get fresh IP to start browsing ProPakistani again.
We will revert back to our usual firewall settings once these attacks are over.
We regret the downtimes; we promise you that we are doing our best to fight DDoS attacks to make sure that we keep bringing the latest updates to you in timely manner.
Thank you all for your support.
P.S. We have learned a lot during all this, which is a lesson in itself. I will share my experience of mitigating DDoS attacks and best practices for avoiding it, once we are fully over with it ourselves.
Bad asses need to be punished Aamir Bhai!!
Good Luck aamir
very sad, you will out from this soon, INSHA ALLAH
DaSO ZARA KERA KERA C!!! PHRAAAA OAY Shahid saleemi meri bandook!!!
Dear Amir & Propakistan Team,
In this difficult time, all your reader and well wisher are with you. Kamran
aamir would you like to tell me, what service you are using, VPS or Dedicated? please reply must
I am not sure… these services are being managed by Server4Sale now… and we don’t have server specs for time being
Try Cloud flare , it will help !
cloudflare won’t protect you with such size of DDoS attacks, it’s good for basic attacks but they will ban you as it gets bigger
Thanks to inform us.
This is so cheap to have have RDP with Gbs of Internet line and DDoS any website. But shouldn’t you have firewalls already in place if using a dedicated server and immediately block such IPs & report them to their ISPs ?
I am sure it would be no one else but our Pakistani brothers, leg pulling you, why are we known for this ?
Thanks for Online your website.
Did you check where were the attack generated from?
Rightnow, Your server is in:
IP address: 194.28.158.180
Host name: propakistani.pk
194.28.158.180 is from United Kingdom(UK) in region Western Europe
So i hope Server4sale kept any DDOS device on first defense for your server.
If you still facing such issues so i will recommend you to contact this company for DDOS protection.
http://prolexic.com/
They are expert in DDOS attack and also you have to directly contact to RackSpace/Softlayer for Managed services with DDOS protection.
This proxy site which is shown in the post is block by PTA (I am using wateen WI-MAX)
sad to know that !
I am using pakistanwebhosting.org services and very satisfied
Hey Sadia, I need to talk to you about web hosting, will you please contact me on facebook, fb.com/rahib.aly
Hey thanks a lot for sharing the information, it really worked… Now am able to access Pro Pakistani ….. Yuppi….. :)
Your database is not working properly. I found a page on google’s 1st page when i was searching for a ddos protected managed vps and i found a link of your web. This link is from archieve and it isn’t working because of database error. Kindly look into it, may be your sql is corrupted or have some erros because of shifting process.
https://propakistani.pk/forums/archive/index.php/t-230.html?s=f05f44d2ba3653bbfef1f4d37ed85b15
problem fixed