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Everything Is Down Temporarily
14 years ago
All my sites are temporarily down. The owner of Deviant Art, Chris Bolt, launched a massive DDoS attack against my sites last Friday, which inadvertently wound up crippling over 2,000 ~other~ websites (that have nothing to do with me) and at the height of the attack actually toppled over the ENTIRE DATA CENTER, as they were shelling out roughly 1.8 MILLION packets per SECOND! o_O
As such I guess the FBI is now involved and they're looking at tracking down the person who did it...which, as I said, is very likely Chris Bolt. The attacks came within 48 hours of my registering the domain chris-bolt.com that I was going to use for a spoof page about him after he banned my DA account for mentioning Encyclopedia Dramatica.
On an upnote though, my host is giving me my ~own~ dedicated server now, along with in an UBER discount on it, which will also have specialized hardware for mitigating DDoS attacks. The cool thing about it is, is that I'll actually be able to make a LOT of new sites now! Before I was so close to using up all my monthly bandwidth that there was no way I could make any new major websites. But now I should have PLENTY of bandwidth, maybe even enough to put up my Data Archive site! :D
Not sure when everything will be back up, they're working on setting up the server now and then once that's done everything has be transferred over, which might take a day or two. In the mean time I'm keeping it all offline in case Sissy Chrissy tries any more attacks, which, wouldn't actually bother me any, but would inflict damage on ~other~ innocent people since it's a SHARED server at present.
As such I guess the FBI is now involved and they're looking at tracking down the person who did it...which, as I said, is very likely Chris Bolt. The attacks came within 48 hours of my registering the domain chris-bolt.com that I was going to use for a spoof page about him after he banned my DA account for mentioning Encyclopedia Dramatica.
On an upnote though, my host is giving me my ~own~ dedicated server now, along with in an UBER discount on it, which will also have specialized hardware for mitigating DDoS attacks. The cool thing about it is, is that I'll actually be able to make a LOT of new sites now! Before I was so close to using up all my monthly bandwidth that there was no way I could make any new major websites. But now I should have PLENTY of bandwidth, maybe even enough to put up my Data Archive site! :D
Not sure when everything will be back up, they're working on setting up the server now and then once that's done everything has be transferred over, which might take a day or two. In the mean time I'm keeping it all offline in case Sissy Chrissy tries any more attacks, which, wouldn't actually bother me any, but would inflict damage on ~other~ innocent people since it's a SHARED server at present.
Low Orbit Ion Cannon. Look it up.