The colocation company that houses the server hosting this blog and a few others, was attacked via CYBER GREMLINS!!!
I was in the middle of futzing with something from a Sys Admin perspective, something minor like a 5 minute tweak and BAM, my connection froze up. I thought I broke the server.
After a few minutes of this, I thought it might be a network problem here in the office. Nope, my connection to other places was acting just fine. Leading me to think it might be a network problem with the colo. Try as I might I couldn’t get to the colo’s website, definitely a sure sign of something BAD going down with the provider.
I used that nifty little “cached” link that Google gives you and I was able to get the phone number and speak to one of the tech support reps. He informed me that about 5-10 minutes ago their network came under a DoS attack, which coincided with the issues I experienced while trying to do that quick 5 minute tweak.
About 10 minutes after talking with the tech support rep everything looks like it is under control.
Yippie!!!
For a few minutes there I thought about what it would be like to have a virtual server with Amazon or some other “Cloud Computing” company.
Maybe when Jules is another year older I will look at doing a “virtual” cloud based server, because I am never going back to a traditional VPS.
Back to the grind.
Laterz