The Home Office said www.police.uk was receiving up to five million hits an hour, or some 75,000 a minute.

rest of story here

The Home Office said www.police.uk was receiving up to five million hits an hour, or some 75,000 a minute.

rest of story here

be alright if the damn thing worked! surely they anticipated this sort of response?

they should have put pay per click ads on it and funded some extra rozzers.

Or extra speed gear

Will be interesting to see the figures for our area - if the site eventually works.

Dibble have had their legs slapped for witholding the information and saying it was in the publics best interest.

Well, underwhemed with it.

anyone thinking of using this & google streetmap for armchair risk assessments?

Quick - close the thread.

This is another example of a Distributed Denial of Service, albeit by accident. We don't want consumers knowing that this can just as easily happen to any ARC in the UK and they would be without monitoring service.

Not a single IP Alarm Monitoring solution in the UK has any DDoS protection..... but then you trade guys know that already don't you

I'll bite...

Doess yours do DDoS ?

Irrelevant. It's your IP solution provider and ARC that you should be more concerned about.