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iMob Online Knocking Other Servers Offline, Breaking Other Apps?

by on January 22nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm

Apparently iMob Online’s problems with scaling are not just affecting the app itself anymore, but now a shared Geo-location server used by many iPhone apps has effectively been the victim of a (probably unintentional) DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) by iMob as well. Here’s a recent forum entry from …