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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I swear I know how to use there, their, and they’re. For general Hack a Day contact: contact@hackaday.com
If Wordpress is not easy to use at your level…maybe consider alternatives? When I hear Wordpress I think personal blogs, stuff that people might not check daily who aren’t the author’s mom. Depending on Wordpress.com to handle all your scaling might backfire, because they may not want to deal with it at some point.
YAWN.
So you guys can throw together a working computer out of a pizza box, Guitar Hero controller, and duct tape but you can’t write your own blog engine?
anon - you forgot the bubble gum and the cheap penguin figurine they got on woot! i guess the penguin wasn’t that important though.
i say they put up a telnet BBS in the mean time. what say you, eliot?
I’M FREAKING OUT MAN!!!!!!
You are freaking out…….man.
Perfect reference.
Meow what do you mean by that?
Telnet BBS? Where?
http://pceeg.sourceforge.net/ has a Arduino hack that makes it into a brain computer interface I am the admin and would love it if you guys did a article on my thing when you get it back up.
It is called The Programmable Chip EEG BCI
I love the scall and wrenches logo if you guys have that as a eagle cad part I would like to have it on my circuit boards.
I would sugjest drupal content management system it is free and open like wordpress but more extendable also high security.
Auto backups raid drives and solid state harddrives ruinning ubuntu 8.04 is what I would do.