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Prolexic Protects Americaneagle.com’s Hosting and e-Commerce Network Against DDoS Attacks
March 2013 by Marc Jacob
Prolexic announced that it recently mitigated a multi-vector Layer 4 and Layer 7 DDoS attack directed at a customer of website development and hosting provider Americaneagle.com (www.americaneagle.com).
In business since 1995, Americaneagle.com had experienced isolated DDoS attacks over the past four years and mitigated them in-house. Recently, it was hit by a large scale DDoS attack directed at a customer’s website. After this intense distributed denial of service attack, Americaneagle.com experienced a surge of 15 DDoS distributed denial of service attacks over the next two months. Americaneagle.com engaged Prolexic for DoS and DDoS protection after researching several DDoS mitigation providers, and a global telecommunications and Internet services provider (ISP).
Since becoming a Prolexic client, Americaneagle.com has deployed the PLXrouted DDoS mitigation service and it has already been put to good use. Recently, Prolexic mitigated a DDoS attack on an Americaneagle.com hosted e-Commerce site that experienced a combination Layer 4 SYN flood and UDP flood that peaked at 4.80 Gbps (bits per
second) and 4.55 Mpps (packets per second). Using the PLXrouted service, Americaneagle.com was able to avoid both customer downtime and financial loss, as well as damage to its reputation for reliable service.
