Outages

So, since we've moved, the new host that we use has been subject to at least two DDOS attacks that I know of, resulting in outages that last for a few hours.  What they had to say about it was:

We want to assure you that we are doing everything we can to prevent these attacks and they are being treated with the highest priority.  We have also implemented mazu to prevent 99% of them and also firewalls and filters.

Quite frankly, at this point, I'm not sure there's anything I can do.  We could move back to Globat, except they also had random outages and they were slower.  If I had millions of dollars I could move to a different hosting service or just have our own dedicated server, but I don't have millions of dollars - at the moment, I don't even have tens of dollars.  And, quite frankly, the thought of switching servers again makes me want to weep.

Therefore, the only thing I can do about the outages at the moment is ask that you have patience, and to please not get hostile and/or panicked if the site is not up.  Wait a few hours; it will come back.  Email me if you think it's been down an excessive length of time, but understand that I'm away from my computer for nine hours a day for classes and six or more for sleep, and so it's likely that by the time I get your message, the site will be back up.  My email is mynuet (not terribly hard to remember, I don't think) at gmail. com, since you can't contact me through the site if the site is down. 

Also, if you feel any need whatsoever to complain, please make sure it is to me, and directly.  No one else needs to deal with the aggravation, and if you're just going to a LJ community or a mailing list to do it, I may or may not see it.