Global internet is crawling because of fight between spamhaus and CyberBunker

[Sushubh]

https://goo.gl/n5Ya6
Apparently Cyberbunker is not happy that spamhaus blocked them for running massive scale of spam campaigns. And they are responding by attacking the internets at the rate of 300gbps. I am struggling to load the NYTimes page linked above.
And there are also reports of a cable cut somewhere which is causing the slowdown here in India.

 

[anonuser7]

Tikona has been giving me 1-1.5mbps today on 4mbps connection...

 

[Sushubh]

The so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks have reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300 billion bits per second.
“It is a real number,” Mr. Gilmore said. “It is the largest publicly announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet.”
Spamhaus, one of the most prominent groups tracking spammers on the Internet, uses volunteers to identify spammers and has been described as an online vigilante group.

I imagine this forum is running fine for all of you guys. Considering you do not have to travel outside India to connect to it!

 

[acc1444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
http://thenextweb.com/2013/03/27/spamhaus-is-battling-a-ddos-described-as-the-biggest-attack-in-history/?fromcat=all

 

[iChaitanya]

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-offline-and-ho
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

 

[Sushubh]

I for one is pleased that I am not on a US based server right now. CloudFlare would not have helped me.

 

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[acc1444]

I for one is pleased that I am not on a US based server right now. CloudFlare would not have helped me.

I think you went to GoDaddy? I observed that in most cases, godaddy offer Netmagic Datacenter India to whom have probably Indian traffic mostly.
Or you deal directly to Netmagic and get dedicated through http://e2enetworks.net.in/.
But I am sure about your domain registrar is Godday from whois record.

 

[Sushubh]

I am using GoDaddy for domains because the prices are insanely low there. I do not like it but that's what the reality is. And yes, I am hosted on E2E Networks right now.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Seacom Cable was cut few days back. While they have repaired the issue but it seems they have hit another snag. And this issue might continue till April. And this is the reason half of Pakistan's internet services have been down in recent days as well. I am assuming that this is one big reason too for problems here.
Source1 | Source2

 

[acc1444]

I am using GoDaddy for domains because the prices are insanely low there. I do not like it but that's what the reality is. And yes, I am hosted on E2E Networks right now.

Even I prefer Godaddy for domain as cheap offering rates for domains.
I observed E2E networks have earned good repo among web admins. I found many websites have mostly Indian traffic are hosted by E2E network.
Does it offer reliable service and guaranteed up time like 99.99%(like US web hosting companies), according you? If it is reliable host, then as of being Indian hosting company in India, it is the biggest achievement but nowadays, many web hosting companies have started and also they give better services to their clients.
Among all, E2E networks is on top in my point view as I found many Indian websites are hosted by them. Bigrock is also good for personal and SME.
Share your experience.