… knocking out Instapundit, LGF, Tim Blair, NZ Bear, etc. Confirmation here and here. I guess creepy people wasting time doing this kind of nonsense is an indication you’re doing something right. [Feeling jealous they're not attacking you?--ed. No way.]
UPDATE: That was short. All sites back up…. except LGF… hmmm…
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Nope. They’re back down again. I can’t get my email; they host my domain! Grr!
They’re all still down, and I guess Meryl Yourish in on Hosting Matters because I can’t access her site either.
The penalties for attacking computer communications infrastructure evidently need to be increased. They should be very severe, something akin to interfering with the US Mail.
It’s still down and that includes my site, Peaktalk, as well. Glenn has signed off for today with a book and I probably will do the same thing.
Spoke too soon.
Can’t get Glenn or Charles.
Even if HostingMatters is as good as some of their customers say it is (and I don’t doubt that at all), this is a good reason for webmasters to diversify when they choose hosts. Even though I mostly like Mr Johnson’s work at Little Green Footballs or Mr Reynolds’ Instapundit, I wouldn’t want my site hosted on the same server as their sites, as they seem to be a magnet for these stupid and disruptive attacks. It’s bad for so many resources to be hosted at one place, and all get knocked out of commission at once. It’s certainly past time for the penalties for DDOS attacks to become more severe, as web based media and services are becoming quite important in the culture.
Actually the penalties for a DoS attack are reasonably stiff:
The penalty for tampering with the mail is 2 years.
http://www.info.gov.nf/isysrich/legislation/ConsolidatedActs/PostalServicesAct1983.doc#bmk29
Someone found guilty of engaging in a DoS attack will suffer a penalty of 6 months to 5 years in jail and up to a $250,000 fine.
http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/abuse/dos/study.html
Yep, HM hosts my site, too.
I’m giddily happy with them, so I’m not going to change.
No host is immune to DOS attacks. How they react to them is the proof of the pudding..
HM maintains an Emergency Support Forum hosted elsewheres so one can get a report on what’s up even as the HM site is under attack.
Good news!
From the support forum linked above:
“…we managed to trace the attacker back to what looks to be the actual origination point.”
Go get ‘im.
It is the next morning and I can get to all sites except for LGF.
I guess that means we know who the target was!
Hosting Matters is just cheap, not good. As my old man used to tell me: the most expensive thing in the world is cheap help.
Every blogger who uses it goes down over and over again and always always always the users just can’t figure it out. Nobody ever bothers to ask, why it is that Hosting Matters goes down and not anyone else? It’s Mapes fault but we finally got rid of her so everything is solved.
Is it possible HM goes down more because they host some of the most popular sites that the Morlochs (sp) want to take down?
All of this makes me wonder if the Islamic sites which post hostage videos and claims of attacks by militant groups don’t get taken down as well. And if not, why not?
For the uninitiated among us, is the DOS attack on the host or on one or more sites hosted there?
(I still can’t get LGF)