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Topic: Your Pro9 experience.

You may, or may not be aware, but I've been tackling some issues with hugely excessive bandwidth usage recently... This is a malicious DDOS and/or "brute force" hack coming from a well documented nasty server located in the USA.

Pro9's server hosts have blocked the majority of their IP's from visiting now, but I'm still wondering if the server's performance is suffering at all, this is where YOU can help.

Let me know how your surfing experience is at Pro9 compared to other websites on the internet - I'm prepared to hear that Pro9 is slower, simply because we have such a "heavy" front page with lots of big photos, but I think they look good for our readers and are good value for our sponsors, and therefore worth the trade-off in page response time.

So, to reiterate, is Pro9 performing the same as usual for you this week?

Have you experienced any moments where the website has "stalled" and simply won't resolve, and then it appears again a couple of minutes later?

Do you get this with other websites?

Hi saw something about this or similer on the news the other day but involving massive companies, where people are sending so much traffic that the website cant handle it and shuts down, the people responsible are then demanding large amount of money otherwise they wont stop doing it. I havent noticed it on any other websites, although i have seen it happened alot on pro9

Yeah, I think we're just getting caught in the crossfire... No one is targeting Pro9 as we're far too small to be of any value - but it HAS dramatically impacted the price I'm paying for bandwidth which increased massively, but now seems to be back down to manageable/affordable levels.