Delayed Update due to DDOS
Yesterday afternoon a DDOS attack brought down the server, and in the process of trying to mitigate / fix the problem the site was knocked offline for several hours. It’s back now.
As a result though, it took out a bunch of time I was planning to spend on this week’s update.
I’m still aiming to put together something in time, but consider this a “just in case” warning — the site’s back up for now, but I still have work to do…
Those are always annoying, in my experience the worst is when a provider null routes you, resulting in more headache than the actual attack. As if it’s you’re fault it happened in the first place. I’ve had providers take down completely unaffected servers simply since they were on the same account as the one being attacked in a different country. The only thing I can say there is ‘fight the good fight’ and don’t ever give in to petty agression.