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Hola mijos!
Quick letter from the front lines, where Website In A Weekend is under attack by a botnet performing a distributed denial of service (DDOS) mission.
So far, the botnet scored some early victories, but we’re struggling along and gaining ground:
- Website In A Weekend is on a shared server. This means I don’t pay very much. It also means that other people with other websites are on this server. Bluehost has been very good so far, and they have told me that none of my sites are a problem.
- Every site on the web is subject to DDOS. Piss off the wrong person, they will take you down. Ask Cliff Stoll about this.
- I’d be delighted to move to a dedicated server. You can help. Send me $100 US per month, done deal!
- Guest post authors: I’ll be emailing you shortly. This condition isn’t permanent, but I don’t want to run any “real” articles until victory is achieved.
- I plan on writing one of these “Under Attacks!” daily until the DDOS is resolved.
- In related news, “Dr. WordPress” is retiring. Dave will be writing from here out. I’ll have a lot more to say about this in very near future.
Shared hosting is an incredible value, on average. It continually amazes me how much power I get for $100/yr. If you aren’t amazed, go ahead and set up your server, just to see how many moving parts you have to synchronize.
Website In A Weekend will move to dedicated server in the future, now is not quite the right time.
In the meantime, since I can’t write to my usual standard, I’m going to issue Under Attack! updates more or less daily. Don’t worry about commenting, it’s disabled…
Did I mention? My Akismet connection went bad. The spam is pouring in!
Enough for now. Surf is definitely up, and I’m off with Walter Yu to catch some waves.
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