As you have probably noticed (and who hasn’t?), the Hack-a-Day web site is currently down and has been for a few days. It seems that initially, DNS issues plagued the site and then they were DDoS’d when the propagation completed. Now a pending Wordpress conversion is underway, which should be completed soon. Forum moderator snorkle256 got the scoop from Eliot last night:
09/09/2008 21:52:46 ‹eliot› so, we’re moving to Wordpress.com VIP hosting (take that Anderson Cooper)
09/09/2008 21:53:03 ‹eliot› and we’re waiting for them to completel the transition
09/09/2008 21:53:38 ‹eliot› The fist downtime was moving from Blogsmith on AOL’s servers to Wordpress in our colo
09/09/2008 21:54:19 ‹eliot› once we came back up we were getting DDoS’d from the first day
09/09/2008 21:54:57 ‹eliot› that essentially saturated the 1G connection Sunday night
09/09/2008 21:55:17 ‹eliot› the devs took us down and decided to investigate other options
09/09/2008 21:56:13 ‹eliot› Wordpress is not easy to use at our level
09/09/2008 21:58:27 ‹eliot› we decided to go with Wordpress.com since this is there software and scaling will be there problem not ours
09/09/2008 21:59:06 ‹eliot› right now we’re just waiting to hear that it’s finalized
09/09/2008 21:59:26 ‹eliot› it should be within the next day; we were expecting today
09/09/2008 22:00:10 ‹eliot› k, I’m back to watching Spider Man cry
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