As many of you noticed, the blog was offline yesterday. And it’s been running slow for a few months before they.
The two were, as it happens, unrelated; there was a move to a new server that caused a few problems, and a denial of service attack bogged the blog down yesterday.
Hopefully we’ve got them both fixed.
Thanks to the good folks at Hosting Matters, who have hosted this blog for the past 15 years, and who are still the best in the business.
I figured a denial of service was going on yesterday. Sorry it happened and am glad things are back.
I’m not a tech guy. Why would someone/something want to deny you service? What’s in it for them?
Is this an attempt at silencing your blog?
Yea, I did not think DOS attacks were random and had to be directed.
Joe Doakes: A DOS could have been directed toward SITD, or could have been directed at something else that shares some infrastructure; that is, another service hosted by the same service Mitch uses. Or even directed at the particular hosting service.
And it could be a direct attempt to silence someone, or just a script kiddy / drive by / someone getting their jollies from shutting down something simply because they can.