Turns out slashdot didn't take the server down afterall. Some time ago my host had to pay for bandwidth hackers used (according to him), so he instructed *his* host to shut his server down should there ever be a spike in traffic. That's what happened to little old amyhughes.org, and all other customers on that server, when slashdot "attacked".
When someone who knew what they were doing looked at the situation, they removed me from the name server and brought the server back up. It took them about 7 hours to get someone who knew what they were doing involved, so that's how long all the other customers' service was interrupted.
The site actually has a pretty fat pipe, but traffic started to spike a couple days before slashdot even got the story. It looks from emailed comments and the web log like it's being discussed in email, "online journals" and other forums. Traffic has been doubling every day. Would it have survived a slashdotting a week ago? I dunno. I'll get a fatter pipe before I announce the next project:-)
In any case, when the server comes back up there'll be no church pictures for a while.
Amy
Slashdot Mirror
Update:
Turns out slashdot didn't take the server down afterall. Some time ago my host had to pay for bandwidth hackers used (according to him), so he instructed *his* host to shut his server down should there ever be a spike in traffic. That's what happened to little old amyhughes.org, and all other customers on that server, when slashdot "attacked".
When someone who knew what they were doing looked at the situation, they removed me from the name server and brought the server back up. It took them about 7 hours to get someone who knew what they were doing involved, so that's how long all the other customers' service was interrupted.
In any case, I'm back online with another host.
Amy
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The site actually has a pretty fat pipe, but traffic started to spike a couple days before slashdot even got the story. It looks from emailed comments and the web log like it's being discussed in email, "online journals" and other forums. Traffic has been doubling every day. Would it have survived a slashdotting a week ago? I dunno. I'll get a fatter pipe before I announce the next project :-)
In any case, when the server comes back up there'll be no church pictures for a while.
Amy