Does anyone else find it suspicious that free .onion Sigaint competitor email providers are being DDoS'd and Sigaint is not?

I've been keeping track of hidden service email providers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/emailprivacy/comments/3gf2ta/email_providers_with_onion_tor_hidden_service/

This is what I'm talking about:

Meanwhile, Sigaint is clearly the most used hidden service free email provider. Yet somehow they seem to have escaped the service problems others are running into. I don't think they're even experiencing DDoS attacks.

I'm not saying Sigaint is being these attacks. I have no proof of that or I would, but it is rather suspicious to me. Why isn't the onion email provder with the most users being attacked? Why only the smaller ones? Maybe Sigaint is next after all these other services are crushed by DDoS... I hope not.

Why is this happening and who is doing it?


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[3 Points] None:

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[3 Points] aboutthednm:

The whole "ddos attack" thing is almost certainly an excuse for lack of proper management, In most cases.

I know of an .onion site whose admin was blackmailed after someone compromised the site through an incredibly obvious bad design decision, and he too told the world he is victim of ddos. It's been months and he still claims it's going on.

Ddos attacks hardly ever last a long time. You close down, change locations or get a new address. Of course this is problematic for mail providers, because if the address changed the mail address you had before is no longer valid.


[2 Points] Lucid_Enemy:

The sigaint servers have been off and on since a few months back I know that.... I highly doubt any one has the fire power to take down 4 servers in different DC's at once... If they do I'd like a job there..... The fire power I have right now is enough to take down around 2 providers and that's with a global scale set up... Thing is with a DDoS people don't realize is the upstream provider will snitch you out quicker then you have time to even effect the ping of your target... These attacks have a signature to them and no one needs to be sending hundreds of ICMP a second... The only way to go about it would be to set up a deflection attack and that would also again show up to the upstream... I mean if your really talking about a botnet style attack like a real distributed denial of service then you would need a bot net quite large think about it most servers now adays have a gigbit port or 2 or for the cheapys 100mibit you have to clog a gigabit at the same time on HOME connections with shit pings...
Tl;Dr I think it's physically impossible.... To do what your suggesting without getting caught...


[2 Points] PeachyoBandit:

The government is ddosing the email services. No tinfoil hat here.


[1 Points] BlastFromThePastor:

Interesting, very interesting.


[1 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

isn't sigaint free?


[-1 Points] Pelican_Vendor:

who cares?>