Quote from: tarantoga on November 26, 2016, 02:01:24 AM

Quote from: izg44423 on November 26, 2016, 12:09:30 AM

And any idea why daily prices on satoshidice are no more working from Oct 18? https://www.satoshidice.com/leader-boards/
That looks like they are running out of money, any ideas if satoshidice is a safe place for high stakes?

Not sure but maybe they lost a lot during the recent DDoS attack.
SatoshiDice is hosted with an expensive Swiss ISP.
Fending off even just 1 Gbit/s costs 400 USD / month ... O.o
Many DDoS attacks are magnitudes larger than that. The record is at over 1 Tbit/s.
https://solarcom.ch/en/ddos_protection

Why they choose this expensive host, I don't know. Maybe legal reasons because CH is not part of the EU.

To clarify - that Swiss hosting company is their usual hosting provider, they were using it even before DDOS attack took place?
If that is the case then it is rather money wasting effort on their part. There are a lot of other hosting options outside of EU, most of them is more affordable too.