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03/13/05 08:17 PM: Status Update
Hi all,
Dave here, yup, I’m still alive. I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up about the comments system. A week and a half ago or so, whichwayup.org was hit with a rather large attack targeting the commenting system. As you’ve probably noticed before, the system was vulnerable to spam attacks. However, the spam-bots stepped up the attacks and what occured was basically a DOS attack, known to us computer nerds as a Denial of Service attack. The sheer amount of traffic took down the server hosting WWU (logicstorm.net), which resulted in several sites on that machine being unavailable for a few hours.
As a result, we’ve had to disable the commenting system for the time being. Most likely, I will have to upgrade the Movabletype install that is running WWU. I am not sure when I will be doing this. Until then, you’ll need to send any comments to us via email. I know it’s not as fun as having comments, but hopefully I will be able to get the comments running again soon.
I’d like to also take this opportunity to welcome Sean to the WWU team, and to thank Chris for making a post, again.
Thanks all
