Hoo boy, this DDOS, huh? · 5:46am Apr 17th, 2015
Welp, what a mess it's been for Knighty, but at least it's over. On the plus side, he did get Cloudflare set up, which I've found to be quite useful on the sites I know use it, so hey, quicker load times for everyone!
Anyway, Letters hasn't been affected by the servers going down--this was one of my off days, after all--so the next one will be posted tomorrow on schedule.
Glad to hear your story is unaffected. Would have been a shame, really.
Glad that everything's normal again.
What does DDOS mean? I'm not that tech savvy
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Distributed Denial of Service. Most commonly, it basically involves overloading a server with traffic to the point where its intended users can't access it, usually through the use of bots.
It's basically the traffic jam of the internet.
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So someone attacked the website with spam or something?
2991360 Close. Imagine a million monkeys all holding down the refresh key (f5), except instead of monkeys it's computer programs.