Our web-server and incoming mail server (POP3) on cPanel server were not available from the internet today 22 June 2012 from 7:05AM due to a sophisticated DDoS attack. Our support engineers were investigation the nature and source of the attack and as of 8:25AM the attack has been mitigated.
The attack did not affect email delivery (SMTP) and email retrieval via IMAP protocol.
Our Secure VPS customers were not affected by this attack due to multi-level protection against DDoS and DoS attacks.
RedyHost Support
Friday, June 22, 2012