Dear friends,
The SDP website continues to be inaccessible from Singapore and Malaysia due to a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on our web hosting provider uCoz.
The present attack targets one of uCoz’s servers which houses several websites including the SDP’s. DDoS attacks operate by overwhelming the server with bogus traffic.
The scale of the present attack is massive, with the perpetrator utilising in excess of 160Gbps to conduct its task. To provide some perspective: It is more than 50 times larger than the average size of a typical DDoS, which is about 2-3Gbps, and over half of the current world record of 300Gbps.
As our website shares the same server with many others, it remains unclear if we are the direct target of this unprecedented attack. Our server provider is working to find out which website is being targeted and to identify the source of the attack. Only then can we restore normal functioning of our site. We will keep you posted on developments as they occur.
We apologise for the disruption of service. In the meantime, we will publish announcements and news articles on our Facebook. Please help us disseminate this announcement. Thank you.
SDP Website Team