In reply to a post by dect:

In reply to a post by trolleybus:

There is a smugness with some VoIP user that their chosen hosted supplier has had no recent loss of service because they have been in the game a long time and therefore their perimeter protection can handle any nasties thrown at it.

I didn't think there was any smugness in the other thread by Pheasant, in my opinion he was purely trying to help you (like he does for everyone) by suggesting other possible options that could help you by mitigating the issue going forward.

Hope you’re keeping well dect. It’s nice to hear from you.

Thanks for leaping to my defence. To your point I’m genuinely not being smug; this can happen to anyone (who knows it might be me tomorrow) and it’s not great especially if one’s business is being affected by it.

As an end user there’s precious little you can do if all your eggs are stacked in one place. For most resi use it really doesn’t matter as by and large we all have alternate means of contact. The point of my suggestion in the other thread was noting that there are other ways of achieving resilience, from supplier failure, whatever the cause. I’ve said my peace, I don’t wish to unnecessarily inflame matters, as folk have enough to deal with. 🙏

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

It’s nice to hear from you.

My days of posting here regularly are over, was banned for a couple of day last month for upsetting a few narrow minded people on a trumped up charge of goading just for making reference to the 'blue oyster bar'.

In reply to a post by clyde123:

We could look on this similarly to how we regard the need for a police force.,, there could be a Nationally provided service for mitigation of Ddos attacks. Could be funded by general taxation - why not?

Given the history of Government computer projects, such as the ££billions spent on NHS and Test and Trace, perhaps this might not be the best idea