What a vacation so far!
Last night, Tropical Storm Cindy came raging through here with all of it’s mighty force. It wasn’t so bad at all - - considering that I am stormphobic to begin with. Lots of heavy rain, wind, lightening and thunder battered our home. This morning, the lake looks like a mud puddle - - all of the mud ran off the land into the lake and it’s solid brown out there.
Right before she hit - Chris and I made a WalMart run (WalMart is the only store in this area aside from a couple of tiny little gas stations. WalMart is a 35 minute drive from the house) - and picked up the necessary items in case of an emergency. Candles, batteries, battery powered radio - - and Rum. We were set!
Once over - it just wasn’t so bad. Now all we have to do is weather Hurricane Dennis, and we’ll be good to go!
Prior to the storm blowing through here - - we had two waves of DOS attacks on one of our servers. Chris and I and numerous network technicians from our data center worked all day long on those attacks, and many of our clients experienced sporadic downtime throughout the day because of it. Gotta love the scriptykiddies out there having fun at the expense of others.
Overall, it was a pretty crappy day. This morning, however - the skies are blue and clear. The servers seem to be running OK (aside from a few more configurations that are being run this AM to prevent further attacks to the network) and I downloaded my email and received a great many kind words from our clients over the handling of the DOS situation. That brightened my morning . . .
I just want to thank all of you for the informative and proactive communication.
Sure, it is highly disagreeable to get hit with a DOS attack, but that has happened to the biggest of hosts. What I don’t expect from the “big name” ISPs is the quality of communication that I receive from Blogs About. Rather than left wondering what’s going on, or even having to find out on my own about planned outages, Blogs About has been great about communicating these details.