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Downtime (DDoS)

September 21, 2006 on 6:52 pm | In Blackhat SEO |

Okay so you may have noticed that my site was down today… I recently moved the website to the hosts known as nearlyfreespeech.net and to get to the point, their servers are rubbish! They were slow at the best of times and it they were brought down by a DDoS aimed at my website.
After waiting many hours for them to even take action their “support” replied with this:

Hello,

Good news! We have identified the problem.

Bad news! It is a massive DDoS attack leveled directly at your site.

If you were less of an asshole, we might have been able to work with you to find some special arrangement to help keep your site online. However, in this case, no such arrangement will be possible, and even if they were, there is likely nothing we could do to keep your site up in the face of an attack of this scale. So, if I were you, I would look forward to a lot of downtime for the foreseeable future.

Thanks,
Jeff
As you can see, not very professional. All I can say is that you should definately avoid ‘nearlyfreespeech‘ because it may as well be some teenager with a 486 server on a dialup line.

As for the DDoS, no one has emailed me to claim “victory”(against a terrible host!) so i’m not quite sure whats going on there… but oh well. I’m prepared to throw as much money at the site as needed to keep it up!

I presume its because of my comments on Spamhaus being fined $11.7m which was quoted by news.com.

Also on a side note, I’d appreciate it if Ann(spamhuntress) kept her little puppy journalist away from me.