If you had trouble reading the blog here
Thanks to Om Malik for the first posting I've seen explaining what seemed to be happening this evening as I was trying to post and update here.
DDoS Attack Hits Six Apart
How does a start-up know that it has made it big? Google and Yahoo both want to buy them… right. That is sooooo… 2005.
Apparently, when your service is brought down by a massive distributed
denial of service attack, you know you have joined a weird kind of hall
of fame. Six Apart, the fine folks behind TypePad,
Moveable Type, and Live Journal, came under massive DDoS attack, that
took down their entire infrastructure. For latest status reports click here.Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six
Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of
service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart’s sites, causing
intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal,
TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com. Our network
operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access
providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and
support, and will provide updates as we have them.
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