After years of being involved in administering different online communities, as well as developing the software for them, one thing never stops shocking me. When you get a user that crosses the line and you ban them, or take any action so they can no longer contribute to your online community, they start yelling that […]
One of the hardest parts of setting up your own blog is to find a decent company that will host it. Most of the software is free, but the computers the site is served on isn’t. That’s where your hosting company comes in. I have been with Lypha for two years now and don’t have […]
In the past 3 hours, I have received over 3,000 spam attacks. This is causing the server to overload. I have had to temporarily restrict commenting to registered members only and close registration, until this attack stops. Once it does then I will re-open it. My hosting company is looking into the source of these […]
So I had some time to kill and decided to look into Joe’s old hosting company, myhostcamp.com, which was where his site was originally hosted when his so called “hack” occurred. First we turn to a simple whois on that domain. Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, […]
Lieberman just said in his speech that people can go to his site, joe2006.com, once it has been “unhacked”. Well I decided to go to his site and check out if their problems were fixed and interesting enough I got a 503 error. For those who are not up on web server errors, 503 signifies […]
Crooks and Liars is back up and running (it was not a hack as some people think). Firedoglake may be intermittent today. We transferred the servers over to the new hosting company last night and changed the DNS. It generally takes 24-48 hours for a DNS to propagate through the millions of nameservers around the […]
You might get some odd errors while viewing the site today. We have a problem going on with the database. The great people at Lypha (the hosting company which I highly recommend) are working hard to fix it so stay tuned and we will be back shortly.
We are still in that touch and go period of propagation from changing hosting providers. Actually I was amazed because I propagated and changed over to the new server within 30 minutes and judging by the hits many others have too. I got to say that this hosting company is so much better. Originally I […]