In addition to the migration of our cpanel01 server, we also had a lot of "fun" with our cpanel02 server which is becoming a very popular target for Denial of Service attacks. Of course, this comes with the territory so we've been spending a good portion of the week putting out fires. On Thursday, we installed an Apache replacement called LiteSpeed which is designed to handle layer 7 attacks better so we hope this will result in less fires to put out in the future. So far it's been handling things very well with only a minor issue with CloudFlare that was resolved today. We also implemented some new settings designed specifically for mitigating layer 7 attacks so we hope these do not impact normal usage.
As always, if you have any issues, concerns, or suggestions please feel free to contact us.
-The Secure Dragon Staff
Saturday, April 13, 2013