Mar 302006
Dear readers,
I am very, very, very sorry for the outages over the last few hours. However, we were slashdotted recently. The slashdotting led to a DOS attack, as somebody was not satisfied with what we wrote.
Our web host HostLoco was fighting for about 2 hours, allowing about 10000 visitors to reach the page(which was a tiny fraction of the requesters). However, about 1800 austrian time, HostLoco had to give up, fowarding the domain to fbi.gov without asking for my permission priorly.
So, to cut a long story short: We are not offline or busted, we just were overloaded.
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What did you write that caused the slashdotting and the DoS attack?
Are you certain that it was HostLoco who redirected your URL to fbi.gov? This seems like something a hacker might do, but for a host service, it would be extremely unprofessional!
The “fault” has this article:
http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/03/29/google-page-creator-review/
I think if someone dislikes my articles he should write a comment and not hack our servers.
Alex
Hi Swamp,
as said, it was their idea, not mine.
The good thing about it was that any DOSser attacked a pretty big site-the bad thing was the shock caused…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
P.s. I will try not to get slashdotted again until having changed my hoster…
Fine you are reachable again!
Hm, IIRC, TamHan wrote that he was the one who forwarded the page to fbi.gov.
I remember the Google-page creator article was subbmitted to slashdot by you (as I see the author is Tam Hanna)
Any thing that gets posted at slashdot has to face the /. effect.