I am beginning to believe this is a DoS because yesterday's downtimes appear to be strategically timed. The first one lasted 17 minutes, and started right when 38 total players were online across 4 servers. After the attack, nobody came for at least 3 hours.
Also, the next downtime was 6 hours, and happened from ~4:00 PM EST to ~10:40 PM EST. This is exactly the time when the most players are online.
When I intend on building my home server I'm going to make sure that it's a router too so that it can track things that are going inside and out of it.
Unfortunately, I cannot do that since coaxial cables are used to connect the router to the fiber-to-coax "box" and purchasing an adapter for my computer would be too expensive, considering how much $ has been spent on HammerHost so far.
show him how much protection he needs to put in place before he even intends on hosting
Even Return to Blockland could not afford DDoS protection; how can a free hosting service do this? And no matter what kind of machine or bandwidth I have, I will get DoS'd.
I'm still shocked Hammer is still hosting this considering of all the issues it's having. It's clearly taking the toll on your father if he's rung up the ISP rather than you.
I will keep hosting this until/if the ISP gives up or terminates us. If this is a DoS attack, the best way to handle it is to simply persist and keep running the hosting service, even if you don't even have 76% uptime in the last week. The attacker will soon get tired of it and quit.
My father also thinks the same; he's not tired of it yet.
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