Update on the bot attacks and the solutions
Obviously, my new plugin wasn’t sufficient to stop the problem, because the blog went down for quite a while today due to brute force bot attacks. This time, my host put up a block of some kind that has worked for now, but might not be enough in the future. If I continue to have the problem, they’ll put up something stronger, but there are some drawbacks to that, which is why I opted to see if the weaker solution will be enough.
Please bear with me, and let me know if you have further problems getting on the blog.
Was listening to a computer security podcast talking about the vast numbers of DDoS attacks which flood websites with bots to try to knock them offline.
Couldn’t access the site at 12:16 pm Eastern time today. When I came back at ~ 1:35 and 3:00 and posted, there was no Edit button.
I wonder if Neo’s site could be targeted because of harsh comments criticizing the Chinese, globalists, and Democratic Fascists of America.
Does indeed look like she’s caught someone’s attention…
Sort of a bummer that we can’t edit previously posted comments on a timer like before, but if the alternative is not being able to access the site at all I guess there’s nothing to be done.
Nonapod; Dax:
I had to reactivate comment editing, which I just did.