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October 22, 2003

Just A Suggestion

I've seen talk around about setting up a backup site for use in case of situations like yesterday's DoS attack on HM. An excellent idea, IMHO. Instapundit has one, as does Citizen Smash/Indepundit, found here. I've even remembered to bookmark them, so if you have one, please leave a link in the comments or e-mail it to me. Yes, I know HTML is disabled in my comments, you can thank the p0rn spammers for that. Please leave a link anyway. I'll round 'em all up & do a post with everyone's backup site link.

But it seems to me that most everyone putting their backup site on Blogspot is a bad idea.....the backups would still be as vulnerable to attack if they're all on the same hosting service. So what's some similar alternatives? Any ideas?

Cuz I think we're going to see a whole lot more of these attacks....it was pretty effective short-term at least, and apparently not that hard to do....this time anyway.

Please don't think that I'm critical of HM's handling of the attacks. I'm not. I think they did a great job, and I really appreciate all their hard work in getting us all back online as soon as humanly possible. And I have no intentions of moving my site anywhere permanently.

It's just I don't intend to let those bastards shut me down. Ever.

I get knocked down,
but I get up again,
you're never gonna keep me down.

Pissin' the night away.

There's your earworm for today. Heh.

Posted by Rita at October 22, 2003 07:06 AM

Comments

re: this suggestion and the random link to Michele's - i haven't previously categorized the logs that i read, but these two thoughts have instigated an epiphany. something isn't coming, it's here, and from my external perspective, you (a somewhat nebulous group) are responding like warriors. this very post is a battle plan. the responses to Michele that the attacks are most likely the actions of immature vandals, or are more anti-Israeli behavior could be true, but they also cover a much larger truth, that the trend of these collective thoughts have threatened the security of some institution. the first person who expressed the conservative philosophy of personal responsibility in an unknown and dynamic universe - and compelled its formalization on these sites in opposition to the liberal philosophy of "the only time i'm not bored with how predictible life is is when i'm collecting my fair share", the war began. (at what point did the first journey to the moon start? lift-off was only the beginning of the final few seconds of that trip.) for two months now i have been thinking about these logs as some sort of amazing new art form and now i see that you are much more. you are an amazing new form of human with observation, analytical, and communication abilities that greatly surpass the norm of even a few years ago. i am so impressed. i also have one prediction - that none of you know how talented you really are and you will end up launching a "geo-thermal nuclear war" on a nest of gnats. there won't be any evidence left to show that the enemy ever existed.

Posted by: kenneth at October 23, 2003 03:02 AM