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I’ve been watching Website In A Weekend melt down. It’s not been pleasant. Here’s a few notes.
- Bluehost customer service has been pretty good through the whole fiasco. I’m going to continue recommending Bluehost as a result. No one is immune from denial of service attacks. If you’re on shared hosting, your risk is much higher. No accounting for your neighbors.
The account which is being attacked has been disabled by Bluehost. Being subject to DDOS is a violation of their terms of service. Unfortunately, nobody told the botnet, which continues to spew packets at the server.
- Google is going to love this:
I’m sure none of these are really broken, they’re being reported broken as a result of timing out.
- Try running your website with comments… without Akismet:
- I’ll be switching to Feedblitz while all this is going on. Feedburner and CommentLuv don’t get along, Feedblitz and CommentLuv work really well together. It’s as good a time as any to make the switch.
- The attacker takes a high value good (your website), and turns it into junk. Now you have to do even more work, and spend more money, just to stay even with where you were.
- Saving a little post like this one takes about 10 minutes.
A denial of service attack is a little bit like a bank robbery, where your deposit isn’t insured.
Point to ponder: what would happen to an economy if bank robbery were tolerated?
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Website In A Weekend is open for business!
Comments are back on, business as usual.
What a week!
Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Botnet Losing Steam (Under Attack! 2/17/2010)
I like how you put this series of posts together Dave, I think it points out a few things to new bloggers as well as existing bloggers. You never know when they are going to happen and when they do it certainly sucks.
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John, thanks.
The most frustrating thing about this is that there is very little I can do except ride it out.
The next level up for hosting costs more money… but also requires more systems administration skill. I’ll spend the money, it’s the time that’s kicking my butt.
Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Botnet Losing Steam (Under Attack! 2/17/2010)
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