i got newz from my hosting company that someone is tryin to DOS ATTACK my forums. Although nothing to worry abt they said.

Well, wth is all this shit? how to increase my own security other then server side security.?

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DDOS attacks are hard to prevent...What you need to do is find out if you can get IP information on the attackers - your host should be able to get this. You can ban those IP's in your cPanel, and better yet, ban the sub-nets if you see a pattern. Your host should also do the same for the server. Odds are, that won't solve the issue anyways...any decent hacker will know how to get around an IP ban.

Whatever you do, just be sure to backup your forums often.

Try not to create any enemies, install any necessary security patches, backup your files, and just let those left attack you...there really isn't a whole lot you can do in many circumstances.

If you have more details about this specific situation (who is doing it, why they are, how they are, etc.), somebody might be able to help you out more. But just saying "somebody is attacking me, ahhh!! how do i stop them?" won't get you very far.

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unfortunately banning the ip's @ the server will do very little against even a novice ddos. The ddos floods the system with invalid data with the purpose of clogging the connection to the server. The only effective way to stop a good sized ddos is to have your provider filter the data coming from those ips off the line further up the line where the line is much bigger so that it does not clog the smaller network lines that go to ur machine.

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do a backup of your site and then if they do reupload it do a backup every day....

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A DOS doesnt destroy any files...all it does it take the site/server down so that nobody can access it...so losing data is not a concern

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ohhhhhhhhh (lol i dont know much about that do i now???? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img])

well that stinks for you hope they dont do it

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oh well, nothing happened as my hosting company said... but they said that u can face slow speed of ur site...
they will change the ip of my site ..

@ Cadence :
DOS attack cant destroy data of my site/forum? plz elaborate !

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Have fought a couple of these off for people, as some one above said try not to make enemies.

Best method l found was via the .htaccess file in your root directory (remembering sub directory .htaccess files override). You can usually stall a DDOS attack effectively via that.

Care to elaborate on how?

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