Someone is trying to take down the Drudge Report — and it's a mystery who's behind it

Business Insider ^ | Oliver Darcy

[Beave Meister]

The Drudge Report, the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods of time over the course of the last two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks, according to its founder, Matt Drudge.

And it's a mystery who's behind it all.

Drudge wrote on Twitter that a December 30 attack was the "biggest DDoS since [the] site's inception."

A DDoS attack is executed by using hijacked computers or electronic devices to flood a website with redundant requests, aiming to overload the website's hosting server and render it unavailable.

[Beave Meister]

Hillary is getting sloppy in her old age....

[Paladin2]

Ir’s Hussein

[null and void]

I blame the rush-ins!

[thoughtomator]

I have nObama idea who might be behind it, none at all.

[TruthFactor]

There’s a war coming folks. Leftist by their nature are unreasonable people. They cannot be bargained with. Therefore, the road inevitably leads to war.

[ChocChipCookie]

Must read: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/01/2016-just-start-going-win-2017/

[bigbob]

Drudge aggregates news of all kinds, just because he doesn’t slant and fake it doesn’t mean it is a conservative site.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

More than likely U.S. Federal Government involved.

[tinamina]

Get the app. It’s always worked so far even when denied elsewhere.

[blackdog]

Back in fax machine days I would load a black piece of paper in a fax and then tape both ends together when it began transmitting. Of course only organizations I was angry with.

[Darksheare]

*cough cough*
Smells like Obama

[txhurl]

‘We can do stuff, too’.

Apparently the Trump online army win shook him up.

[BenLurkin]

More likely the shadowy cabal that Obama fronts for.

[gaijin]

Drudge has shown up in-person to TWO different national FreeRepublic events, back in the day.

A really modest guy who LINKS TO US, helps us, to his own huge detriment, actually, since that gives folks a way AROUND HIM to get to his stories, right..?

We should all be CLICKING ON HIS ADS.

And telling our friends to get our news THROUG HIM.

15 years ago Drudge was responsible for maybe 1/3 of our membership.

HIS IS OUR BUDDY.

[Telepathic Intruder]

That will stop in a couple more weeks.

[Darksheare]

I can honestly see him, ears wobbling as he effeminately cried, ordering someone to do ddos attacks.

[hsmomx3]

Makes me wonder if Drudge has some HUGE news someone does not want him to share?????

[patro]

That’s great! Ha!!

[Nextrush]

You’re Putin me on.