Welcome to The Dark Side

As I promised, I have put together a tutorial of how to setup a Linux Gateway (and router). First I want explain why some people may want to do something like this, especially when someone can spend $50 and use a network wizard to create their home network or their ISP provides a modem and [...]

So, for those of you that don’t know, I work for a hosting company. I enjoy what I do, and for all intents and purposes, I do a pretty good job at it. Recently, one of the sites we host, was getting hammered, hardcore.

To save on a very long, long, long winded story of how we battled these flooders, I am going to list what we did to get things working well again.