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January 10, 2005
Monday
 
 
Hosting problems
Perry de Havilland (London)  Administrative

Our hosting company has been under sustained DOS attacks from some worthless scrotes over the last couple days and if you have been finding it hard to reach samizdata.net, that is why.

It is also why there has been a low volume of posts here as we have frequently been unable to access our blog's 'back-end'. The good folks at Hosting Matters have been doing their best to keep things operational under difficult circumstances.

Comments

bummer, I need regular fixes :-(


Posted by snide at January 10, 2005 08:19 AM

Lousy DOS users! I knew it was a mistake to leave CP/M.
Ah, PIP, SID , ED....... (Drifts off into pink-tinged reverie)


Posted by zmollusc at January 10, 2005 09:26 AM

There seems to be a lot of this going around the Right side of the web: Asymmetrical belief in free speech, or the Left at the breaking point?


Posted by HelenW at January 10, 2005 02:05 PM

Perhaps whoever succeeded David Blunkett as Home Secretary is responsible.


Posted by Ted Schuerzinger at January 10, 2005 02:59 PM

Helen's comment is rather interesting ...


Posted by Verity at January 10, 2005 05:11 PM

Helen's comment is simply paranoid - DOS attacks are unfortunately endemic.


Posted by ian at January 10, 2005 06:37 PM

I blame the parents.


Posted by Edward Teague at January 10, 2005 08:43 PM

Samizdata has been slow to load for the best part of a month now, although now it is back to its lightning self again. Hurrah.

Perry has assured me that it could not be, but personally I think that what caused the problem was my coffee jar posting, with all those photos. That was when the trouble started, I reckon.


Posted by Brian Micklethwait at January 10, 2005 10:44 PM
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