DDoS Attack Takes Out Web Host

Web hosting provider Media Temple was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this week. The attack, which appeared to emanate from outside the United States, began sometime in the afternoon on Tuesday and took down the domain servers for around 2.5 hours.

“Due to the sophistication of the attack, our normal DDoS firewall prevention techniques didn’t block the attack adequately, as the traffic appears…