Apology Accepted
Posted at 3:35 AM
It’s pretty nice when my own ISP reads my blog, comments, and apologizes for the downtime I mentioned yesterday. DreamHost also took a big, detailed mea culpa for the failure in an email they sent me and the rest of their customers. Now that’s class. I recommend DreamHost to anyone.
And now I know more details about what happened. Turns out it wasn’t just a hardware failure. Here’s an excerpt from that “Network Outage Detailed Report with System Changes” email:
We now know the network outage was the result of a malicious Denial of Service attack aimed at a website hosted on our servers.
Whoa! Kind of make you wonder who the hackers were trying to take down on Monday. Or maybe it’s best that I don’t know.
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