Major Web Host Down?

NA | 01/07/2005 | Martin at Blogbat

[blogbat]

Hosting Matters, the webhost for Little Green Footballs, Wizbang! and others including blogbat’s future home has been down for an unspecified period of time and just recently started seeing a return of some of its sites to the web.

Hosting Matters’ own home page was also currenly down for a time. No announcements of mantainemnce or news of serious weather in the area have been reported in local news or made available to its users. It instead simply appears to be an unplanned event.

Hosting Matters maintains its web servers in Jacksonville, FL USA. An e-mail has been sent to HM to find out why the servers went offline. I’m currently awaiting a response or announcement. The hosts main page has now returned to the web, along with Wizbang!, but Little Green Footballs and others have not yet returned.

[KJC1]

LGF was still up about an hour ago, so it must have just happened.

[Calpernia]

I've no idea of where their host location is...

BUT, if it helps, I do know that Verizon has some outages. I've been having trouble all day and ran several trace routes that all resolved to verizon areas with outages (more than one location).

If that lends any insight, great!

[Boundless]

http://www.internetpulse.net/
is reporting the Cogent-ATT connection as "flatline".

Related? Who knows.

[blogbat]

Hardware guys are out partying :p

[qam1]

Skynet???

[fastattacksailor]

No doubt that the man behind this is George Bush.

;-)

[b4its2late]

 

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Details for iits0342.inlink.com

Router: iits0342.inlink.com (209.135.142.42)
Location	Current Index	Response Time (ms)	Packet Loss (%)
Missouri	0	0	100

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Details for core-router.centramedia.net

Router: core-router.centramedia.net (64.136.64.10)
Location	Current Index	Response Time (ms)	Packet Loss (%)
Texas (Pampa)	11	70	87

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Details for core-c7fe00.aspware.net

Router: core-c7fe00.aspware.net (66.180.32.253)
Location	Current Index	Response Time (ms)	Packet Loss (%)
Texas (Dallas)	47	520	50

 

[blogbat]

Yes, the source of all evil in the world. Hey, if he can cause tsunamis to kill hundreds of thousands in Asia, he could also be a hacker. Amazing the man is can be both a complete and utter buffoon and godlike all at the same time lol.

Of course you know...maybe Charles at LGF didn't accept an offer to advertise for No Child Left Behind :p

[blogbat]

It's beginning to look like the AOL corporate network :p

[b4its2late]

It must be a slow day, I read your profile and tried to read your blot, but could not connect....

[Elkiejg]

Something is going on -- 11:36 pm est, I just tried lgf, InstaPundit, powerline, Malkin -- just to name a few and none are working.

[blogbat]

Its okay, blogbat.us is new future blog, so you wouldn't have seen anything but a flash dealibop telling you to go to my present digs (xanga.com/blogbat). ;)

[blogbat]

Take out one host and kill all the bloggers. If only Dan Rather had been tech-savvy. Well, we know who's the popular webhost these days, n'est ce pas?

[kokonut]

same thing here...seems to be a coordinated attack

Too much of an coincidence...can't get malkin, captains quarters, powerlineblog, instapundit, little green footballs...

[blogbat]

Not necessarily. Since all the stratus-blogosphere eggs are pretty much in one basket, such things can happen. It may be something nefarious, but it also just might be a technical hiccup.

I think maybe some bloggers should make the sacrifice and pick a different host so we won't all be taken out by a hacker attacking our host. Of course, I'm not moving. :p

HM is the be$t deal in town for a blogger -and it's extremely Movable Type friendly.

Btw. my business host (XO) which is also based in FL is doing fine.

[kokonut]

"not necessarily"...and yet on the eve of the CBS memo investigation? Retribution in kind?

[Windcatcher]

I've been having problems with Comcast for a few days, now. I figured that there was a problem with their DNS server, but it could also possibly be a backbone problem somewhere in the US. For three nights now I've had problems getting to sites like Yahoo! and Slashdot for an hour at a time.

[TheForceOfOne]

looks like there was a major dip around 1500