| | So, the DhO went down today in what was either a hyper-agressive web-crawl from Bing or a distributed attack masquerading as Bing.
It is obviously back up at the moment, but I would expect instability in the next few days as they are changing the way this is hosted to something closer to Enterprise class servers (also at substantial cost). This will allow more sophisticated firewall blocking, possibly an upgrade to Liferay 6.1, and hopefully enough server/CPU power to handle whatever Microsoft or the malignant hackers throw at it, such that hopefully legitimate traffic will be able to get through.
This will up the cost of this place to $179/month from $50/month, which is ok in the large scheme of things, and I am happy to pay it if it keeps this place up and running. No donations necessary, just telling you all this so you know how this place runs and what is going on. The cost could have been worse, and Chris Stavros at Omegabit waved the switchover fees, so that was pretty cool of him.
I don't know if this was due to the Wired article or what, but the coincidence is interesting. Better to be the Dharma Just-a-bit-Over-the-Ground-but-not-too-much-so-that-your-servers-get-shut-down? Hard to tell.
Anyway, if this places is glitchy or down at points over the next few days, that is just growing and defense pains.
Thanks for participating here,
Daniel |