Up and down
Nov 1st, 2007 by Peter
The frequent guests here (me only, I guess) may have noticed a lot of irregularity with the uptime of this blog lately.
Nothing I can do much about, since it is my host’s decision to limit the number of times an IP can access the site within a certain time. I’ve contacted them to hear what is wrong and what to expect in the future.
The problem is a DOS attack to the same IP on which my blog is located. It has happened a number of times and now again today. Somehow some idiot(s) decided that it would be cool. I just hope it’s not my site’s fault, or else I might have to look for another host. Not painting the devil on the wall or anything, but you never know in these days of the Net Nanny and I do write some stuff about China, don’t I?
According to my host, they would try and open up again later today, so I’ll just have to cross my fingers and see. I have to admit, that it had me consider jumping ship and use another host. There are other things I’m not that happy about (responding time and general speed of my site/pictures). But wait and see a few days.
I can only wait and hope people don’t think that my site is gone forever.