Site issues: Outage is NOT my fault this time
I have been notified by my new host, mediatemple, that my databases are working fine and are no longer causing an undue strain on their servers.
That’s the good news.
Here’s the bad news:
Mediatemple was the victim of a denial of service attack today. It knocked down Blog Peoria and other sites hosted with (mt) today. There might be some lingering issues with DNS servers needing to propagate some changes. Depending on your ISP, that might take a while.
I do not have any details on what form the DDoS attack took, but I think my site was used in the effort. On Friday, I noticed I was getting a massive number of hits off a Yahoo Image search for a particular phrase, which I won’t repeat so as to NOT generate more of these hits. Things settled down a bit, but on Monday, the page views reached close to 65,000. Normally, I’m lucky if I get 5,000 (these figures are via Site Meter).
I stopped the hits by deleting the post in question and my renaming the image filename.
I submitted a ticket to mediatemple, and maybe a week from now I’ll get a reply.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I will blame the Billy Boy in one respect: YOU signed yourself up for this abomination.