The two neighbors I have did not port their main number in, so all we had to do was re-forward their number to a cell phone. They had purchased a local number hosted with
Voip.Ms so that they could keep the main number with the telco and just froward the calls to the alternate number to get all
Voip.Ms options.
I found some of the
Voip.Ms servers that were fairly stable and switched to them (once I could get to the website control panel).
I also have watched as they added Cloudflare to be a firewall against DDOS. I know it will take time for them to get their website stable and also the servers. Cloudflare hides the IP addresses and that will help. people should not know the IP addresses of the servers (in my opinion), although it helped me last night.
Since the neighbors are using ObiPhones I just Created CallCentric accounts for them. That way they will have a separate button on their phones which can be enabled if this type of DDOS happens again. Both services will show the same outbound Caller Id Number (the main office number).
In both these cases, the companies have no long distance service with the telco because of a very high price. Thus the phantom numbers for the VOIP providers have to be local calls for these phones.
So I have watched
Voip.Ms this whole time, they have kept Twitter updates going, doing the best they can under the circumstances. I see a few people horrified at what has happened, yet many customers are understanding and quote many years service with no issues at all. Yes,
Voip.Ms could have used Cloudflare sooner and perhaps done more up front, but many companies have been in the same place.