May 23 2008
Website is back up
If you tried to visit this blog, or any part of the Poetry Chaikhana website Wednesday evening or Thursday morning — everything was down. My internet service provider, the folks who host the website, were hit by a Denial of Service attack. Basically, that means a hacker sent an automated stream of data to their servers, overwhelming them, and shutting their systems down.
Well, we’re back up, with new security in place that should minimize the possibility of that in the future…