garyshort.org

Hi Julie and thanks for stopping by. It's great to see you up and running again. Good luck with fighting these guys off.

All better. This happened in March, too. My hosting company definitely does not suck - it's www.ORCSWeb.com. My blogging software is dasblog latest version. We don't really know what it is, but it happens just on the blog application and doesn't affect the rest of my site. The host's server CPU spins up to 99% (even immediately after the app is restarted) and my site quickly goes to 503 errors (too many requests). So my assumption is that someone is slamming it. The problem of course is that this hurts any other domains that are hosted on the same box as mine, so the easiest thing to do is shut down the application. It seems to last for a bunch of hours and then mysteriously stop.

Either the hosting company or her blogging software must suck or maybe she has neglected patches to fix vulnerabilities. It will be interesting to see the post attack analysis that made this happen.

Sad that these parasites feel the need to attack websites and post comment spam. Scum bags.