Reality From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 375 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1282 times:
"It's pretty clear that it was an absolute attempt to crash our site," said Gareth Edmondson-Jones, adding that he did not know who launched the attack."
Actually, they sound a little paranoid. It could be that they just didn't plan well enough for the traffic and the site crashed because so many people were trying to use it.
FLYGUY767 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1074 times:
Quoting Reality (Reply 2): Actually, they sound a little paranoid. It could be that they just didn't plan well enough for the traffic and the site crashed because so many people were trying to use it.
100% Agreed...
The powers that be would seem not to have planned out the site very well.. There are a few other threads that list glaring problems with the Virgin America website and everything from lack of service information, lack of price information, and lack of in-flight amenity information..
BlueFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3119 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 946 times:
Quoting Reality (Reply 2): Actually, they sound a little paranoid. It could be that they just didn't plan well enough for the traffic and the site crashed because so many people were trying to use it.
Trust me, any decent net admin can quickly tell the difference between an overload of genuine traffic and a DoS (denial of service) attack. The consequence may be the same, but the traffic patterns are different.
Now you may argue that they did go down because of the volume of traffic and chose to blame a non-existent attack instead, but that makes them liars, not paranoid. Either way, it's fairly easy to find out for those who really care.
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