Here what actually happen as many people know it doesn't take more over then 72 hours to resolve a ddos attack.
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robertf2010: Hello are you there ?
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robertf2010: Hello are you there ?
ADollarHost: hi
ADollarHost: yes
robertf2010: How long will it take to fix the ddos attack ?
ADollarHost: r u an existing customer?
robertf2010: I was going to order from you the same day before you were experience the ddos attack.
ADollarHost: actually the datacenter is woring hard on server
ADollarHost: according to there report server will be up tonight
robertf2010: What actually happen to the server ?
ADollarHost:
its ddos and it has dameged hardware of server
robertf2010: Was it an HDD failure ?
robertf2010: I hope you've backups of all accounts.
ADollarHost: yes its hard disk failure and we have all backups
Be honest with your clients some will understand the problem and same won't understand the problem frankly of all the best choice would be is to be honest with your clients at all time no matter what the problems is this why you can gain trust of them.