jecasc - 5:57 pm on Oct 18, 2010 (gmt 0)

Thanks for your input. Interesting read. One piece of advice to all: If you do get such an email contact your server admin immediately and don't dismiss it as hoax or spam. Could have saved me the downtime if I had contacted my webhoster immediately so he could have moved my website to a high performance server before the attack started.

Anybody know where I can find lists with foreign IP ranges? Since I sell 99% in Europe I thought it would perhaps be a good idea to block the rest of the world for some time to limit the scale of the attack. On the other hand - what happens if I accidently block Google and other search engines...