Possible Downtime Explanation
by Smigit on April 27, 2006
If you couldnt reach the site today it will be because of one of 2 reasons.
a) I had to update the DNS settings. If you dont know what this means then you don't need to know. Basically the Host has a new DNS setup which uses 4 DNS hosts so that if one goes down the site will not go down (since there will be 3 backups, all in different locations in the world). To do this I had to change the DNS settings from my previous ones which may have resulted in some small downtime (about 2 hours)
b) the web server we are hosted on was subjected to some DOS attacks (denial of service). Due to the nature of these attacks you may have lost access to the site for about 12 or so hours today.
Hopefully both issues are resolved by now, thanks for your patience.
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