I’ve been up since 3am trying to fix two servers that decided to go down at roughly the same time.
Completely unrelated issues; just like buses… you wait forever, and then they both come at the same time. Well, I haven’t had an issue like this in over 3 years — and then it happens to TWO separate machines at the SAME TIME!
If you couldn’t access this site for a few hours, that’s why!
Well, that’s why God invented coffee. Large pint-sized mugs of coffee. For days like this.
For the computer geeks out there: Damn the Internet, UDP and script kiddies with nothing better to do. DDoS attacks are so damn brutal.
Jossie Posie
Feb 19, 2009
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned how much you physically remind me of my ex-husband but with this post its like the complete package. I haven’t experienced this much computer speak in quite a while. Creepy.
sebastian
Feb 19, 2009
You now know how much I am avoiding technical mumbojumbo in my other entries now
Sorry for being creepy…!
Daniel Cassidy
Feb 19, 2009
Are they by any chance identical hardware bought and installed at the same time?
sebastian
Feb 19, 2009
Naw, one was a DDoS, another was a separate issue.
The DDoS was seemingly random (on two IP addresses that aren’t even being actively used, as far as I can tell…) and randomly stopped at 11:55 today, after 8 hours of a constant 100 Mbps stream. Fun times…!