As a general update:
Guys, I understand communications have been slow with this DDOS attack. I have been at this for a long time now, and I feel very bad about how issues impacted lately and we are working hard to not only stop now, but come with additional protections and solutions going into 2014.
Resellers, please please make sure you audit all signups coming in on your reseller system, never auto accept accounts, audit them for legit customers, payments etc.
However, DDOS alone cannot be pointed at an individual in most cases, there are some certain types of sites more prone to get them, and I'd say whats happened lately is not of those high risk type.
What's for sure that is DDOS for hire is getting cheaper, and people are more willing than ever to do dirty means to take out competitors. I don't believe anyone is attacking us, but there's a very real likelihood some of the recent DDOS was such a case against a hosted reseller end user. A 7gb/s DDOS(happened end of last month/early this month) doesn't just randomly target something that I've seen, nor does a smaller traffic, but crafty shifting attack like on web17 come by random chance. We've determined one of the target sites is actually on some external DNS pointing at us which is creating a majority of the traffic to the IP(shared IP of server with other shared domains).
