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July 15, 2010

Black Lotus Announces Platinum Sponsorship at HostingCon 2010

Virginia Beach, VA (Vocus) July 15, 2010 – Black Lotus, a leading distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services company, announced today its platinum level sponsorship at HostingCon 2010, the hosting industry’s sixth annual convention. HostingCon 2010 will take place July 19-21 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX. Black Lotus offers specialized website hosting with DDoS services, including DDos protected hosting and DDoS protected dedicated servers (http://www.blacklotus.net/). “We are excited to sponsor HostingCon as it provides the hosting industry a means of sharing ideas, learning about new technology and networking,” says Jeffrey Lyon, Director at Black Lotus. “This year’s theme of cloud hosting is especially relevant as Black Lotus now offers LotusCloud VM, a DDoS protected virtual solution that defeats attacks which take advantage of cloud hosting’s vulnerabilities.” The many educational sessions offered at HostingCon 2010 include a … Continue reading →

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June 24, 2010

Black Lotus Announces DDoS Protection Cost Management White Paper

Leading DDoS protection services provider analyzes the true cost of DDoS attacks. Virginia Beach, VA (Vocus) June 24, 2010 — Black Lotus, a leading distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services (http://www.blacklotus.net/) company, announced today its new Stopping DDoS Attacks: Cost Management Analysis white paper. The white paper describes the extent of potential DDoS devastation and the most important considerations for preventing DDoS attacks. Additionally, the white paper provides a cost management analysis on preventing DDoS attacks versus stopping DDoS attacks after they are already in progress. “A DDoS attack and website unavailability can cost a company significant damage in expenses, reputation, and revenue,” says Jeffrey Lyon, President and CEO at Black Lotus. “Our new cost analysis white paper will help customers understand what a DDoS attack is and the types of DDoS protection services they can utilize to protect … Continue reading →

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December 7, 2009

Black Lotus Launches Green Cloud Hosting With Built-In DDoS Protection Services

Website owners can now get environmentally-friendly cloud hosting with built-in DDoS protection services. Virginia Beach, VA (PRWEB) Dec. 7, 2009 – Black Lotus, a leading DDoS protection services company, announced today its new LotusCloud VM service, the first environmentally-friendly virtual server hosted in the cloud with high-end DDoS protection built-in. Website owners get the added security of DDoS protection without having to purchase DDoS protection services separately. “Customers needing to rapidly deploy DDoS protected servers can use LotusCloud VM to do so on their own terms, with the exact configuration they need, all at an affordable price while helping the environment,” said Jeffrey Lyons, Director of Black Lotus. “Bare metal dedicated servers utilize an average of 40 to 460 watts of power, whereas LotusCloud VM only uses 7 watts per server, drastically reducing energy cost and carbon footprint.” LotusCloud VM … Continue reading →

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November 26, 2009

The undetectable DDoS

For several years HTTP GET attacks have plagued web hosts with an extremely frustrating problem. These attacks are “low and slow” in the sense that only a few connections can slip through a network firewall or DDoS filter, cause a web server to respond to the seemingly valid request, and then generate hundreds of megabits or even gigabits of egress bandwidth utilization. Traditionally the common response to this was to either null route the IP and hope the problem goes away, try to filter each IP by hand which requires many hours or even days plus a functional understanding of iptables, or perhaps as a last ditch effort the services of a DDoS mitigation provider like Black Lotus. The latter has been extremely popular in recent days as a new variant of this attack has been detected in the wild. … Continue reading →

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August 27, 2009

Black Lotus is featured in Ping! Zine

If you were fortunate enough to find yourself at HostingCon 2009 you may have seen this issue of Ping! Zine floating around as it was left for distribution at numerous booths to include the Ping! Zine booth and our own Black Lotus booth. In the article captioned “Prevent DDoS Attacks,” PR specialist and technical writer Dave Young presents a 3rd party review of our services and the impact they have to companies in need of advanced DDoS protection services or who feel they may become the target of an attack. The article provides a brief overview of our company history and the philosophy behind the services that we offer. Dave discusses our business strategies, product offerings, and how Black Lotus offers the leading edge in modern DDoS mitigation strategies. The article can be downloaded here (approximately 9MB)

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August 25, 2009

Celebrating a successful HostingCon 2009

We’re proud to announce that on August 11th we made our first public convention appearance and met with hundreds of customers, future customers, friends, and vendors. The atmosphere was simply amazing and it did not take long to realize that our marketing budget was well spent. The event was so successful that we decided to come back in 2010 as Platinum sponsors where we’ll be unveiling a new and exciting hardware platform currently in development! Ping! Zine put out a great review of our company in their HostingCon issue which was distributed from our booth along with various schwag from our friends and vendors. Perhaps the most exciting part for some was the video game offering. Rather than hand out some pens, paper, or stress balls we went totally unique and setup a four station Xbox 360 lab with Call … Continue reading →

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July 2, 2009

We’ve got HostingCon 2009 fever..

.. and the only cure is a prime location in the exhibit hall at the Gaylord National and more Call of Duty 4 than you can shake a stick at! August 10th through the 12th Black Lotus will be at the convention in full force rubbing elbows with customers, potential customers, vendors, industry gurus, and mostly just wasting a lot of time playing video games. Don’t worry, we’re not the only ones who get to have fun! We’re setting up an additional four COD4 stations right in the middle of our exhibit directly at the main entrance so you don’t even have to walk far to get your game on. It’s not all fun and games though, HostingCon 2009 marks our first scheduled public appearance and a landmark opportunity to meet company executives and learn about the future of DDoS … Continue reading →

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May 6, 2009

Black Lotus feature in Gawkwire

Source Gawkwire.com Prevent DDoS Attacks with Black Lotus Dave Young 05 May, 2009 06:35:00 Have a server or a website? Are they protected from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks? If you have a server or a website and they are important to your organization, you need to do everything you can to protect them from major DDoS attacks. Meet Black Lotus (http://www.blacklotus.net). “Every site and server is inherently vulnerable to DDoS,” says Jeffrey Lyon, president of Black Lotus. “Employing your own countermeasures or using a DDoS protection provider only enhances your chance of survival.” About Black Lotus Black Lotus offers a proxy service specifically designed to protect your server even if you are hosting with another provider. DDoS protected proxy service can be setup quickly to screen and mitigate malicious traffic before handing it off to a customer’s server. “Our product … Continue reading →

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April 6, 2009

We’re back in Ping! Zine

For the first time since 2004 (issues 10 and 11 if you can remember that far back) Black Lotus is once again featured in a full page add in the latest edition of Ping! Zine magazine. This is our first of a new advertising campaign and a 12 issue contract with Ping! Zine. It is also the first of many new and exciting developments at our company. In the campaign ads begin “When robots attack…” to bring home the fact that by the time a customer determines that they’re in need of DDoS protection or in need of better protection it is often too late and serious damage has been done to the business. You can see the ad in our archive at http://www.blacklotus.net/pingzine/issue_32.pdf

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February 7, 2009

DDoS protection verification seal program

In October 2007 we introduced a verification seal program that would allow customers to place a 150 x 150 JavaScript generated image on their site proving that the site was indeed DDoS protected. The JS would reference a customer database we maintain. Unfortunately the seals were not very attractive and not heavily used. Today we have a much more attractive and lightweight version (5KB vice 7KB) available to all Black Lotus customers with DDoS protection products. It is as follows: To request this seal please contact us by opening a support ticket at http://www.blacklotus.net/clients .

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