January 8, 2005
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BREAKING
Major Blogosphere Web Host Down in DDoS Attack
As I originally posted at the Free Republic at around 10:05 PM Central Standard Time (not long after I initially discovered the issue) Hosting Matters, the webhost for Little Green Footballs, Wizbang!, Michelle Malkin, Instapundit, Powerline and others including Blogbat’s future home at blogbat.us (which is why you may not see my banner above), had gone down for an unspecified period of time - at least for an hour by the time of the posting at FR.
No one truly knew what the cause was until about an hour after that when HM’s emergency support forum (which is maintained on a different domain and host) confirmed the cause of the outage to in fact be a denial of service attack.
A statement in the forum to the host’s users posted by Stephanie at HM at 11:08 CST says,
We have confirmed that the tonight’s trouble is being caused by a DDOS attack. We are working as fast as possible to get things back up. We will post more information as we have it.
For a short time, the host’s main page, hostingmatters.com returned to the web along with the Wizbang! blog, but this was short-lived and others have not yet returned.
An hour later at 12:19 CST Stephanie indicated they were still investigating the attack and trying to bring everything back online, however she said they didn’t yet have an expected time-frame for this.
UPDATE 04:25 :
After several ups and downs Hosting Matters is back online! As of this moment so seem to be its happy clients as well. Three cheers for a difficult night in the office to Stephanie, Annette and all the rest who kept slurping coffee until connectivity was restored.
Thanks to
Related earlier posts:
DMAT Servers Hijacked to Attack Others in “Official Act of Cyber Terrorism”
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Comments (2)
Oh all right, I DID IT!!!
Glenn can’t have all the traffic. I’m sorry but he can’t.
I knew you were the hacker :p