Under Attack - 4 comments

Sorry for the slowness of the site over the past day or two - we do seem to be getting hit by vast numbers of bogus redirects - I believe this is a fair description of what's happening (except our front page's Google PR is 6, not 3 or 4) - which is slowing the network down no end.

I don't have a solution, yet - and it's annoying that it's happening this week, of all weeks - but hopefully when I've woken up a little I'll think of something...

Update (7th Feb @ midnight): Well, I must say I'm a little disappointed at the absence of fevered speculation over the source of the "cyber" attack on B4L over the past day and a half (obviously touched a nerve somewhere!). Happily, at the cost of a mere half-day of my life, the site does now seem to be generally available once again - nonetheless, ending the day with 140 page views shows the extent of the outage. If you found it incredibly irritating, you can bet I did too. Apologies to all.

Update (7th Feb @ just after midnight): If any B4L-ers would like to learn more about what happened, what I did, assorted theories, etc., please use the contact form or drop me an email.

Update (9th Feb @ 21:50): If anyone's still reading (this blog), I've shifted discussion of this issue over to the Forum - here's the thread in question.