Quote from: phillipsjk on October 21, 2011, 07:41:07 AM

Speculation: I suspect the mainframe mining pool was also hit by this DDOS attack.

Close. We got word that we were next on the "hit list" and that a large scale attack was imminent (more than 11gbps). I had very little time to make a decision.

Faced with this situation and knowing that my datacenter didnt have the capacity to cope with an attack of this scale i made the decision to spare other mission critical services, colleagues, employees, and other paying customers the loss of revenue, headaches, and inconvenience an attack of the scale would have caused.

I resent being forced into this situation. It doesnt feel right to shut Mainframe down.

Now i have also had to re-evaluate the entire situation and realize that there simply is not enough revenue being generated from this pool for it to support itself outside of my own network and the danger to my other clients, colleagues, etc. is too great to justify keeping this personal hobby project of mine up and running at the detriment of everyone else in this network. (In case its not clear, i co-own the company where the pool was hosted so the bandwidth and server costs were negligible as long as it was hosted in my own network)

At any rate, the pool just doesnt make enough to pay for the type of hardware and bandwidth needed to run it properly and the person who was donating this hardware and bandwidth (me) can no longer do it. I cant say im really happy about any of this (Im not) but sometimes the most logical action is not always the most popular one or the one you really feel like doing. I just dont see any other options right now.

It was fun. I wish it could go on. Im proud of 0 downtime and 0 problems during our 3 month run. We had a good service which was stable, reliable and just worked and we had the best miners in the community. I guess its not a bad record to go out with.

- Anni