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.
bummer, I need regular fixes 🙁
Lousy DOS users! I knew it was a mistake to leave CP/M.
Ah, PIP, SID , ED……. (Drifts off into pink-tinged reverie)
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?
Perhaps whoever succeeded David Blunkett as Home Secretary is responsible.
Helen’s comment is rather interesting …
Helen’s comment is simply paranoid – DOS attacks are unfortunately endemic.
I blame the parents.
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.