WordPress.com Suffers Attack
I don’t know if you all noticed this, but there was no post written yesterday. Just so you know, I was not able to post due to a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday.
According to Matt Mullenweg, spokesman for Automattic ,the service experienced a DoS attack with spikes of up to 6 gigabits of incoming traffic, which was making some blogs inaccessible for about five to 15 minutes on Tuesday. However, an employee at a New York-based company that has blogs hosted by WordPress.com suggested that some users were experiencing outages for longer than 15 minutes. The source, who asked not to be identified, said on Tuesday afternoon that users there were unable to log in to their blogs and post comments for “most of the day.” However, the blogs were still able to be viewed publicly.
This includes me. I was not able to log into WordPress.com all day long. Finally, late last night, when I was too tired to post and American Idol was on, I was finally able to gain access. The interesting thing is, Yahoo news reports that………
“WordPress.com users were notified via e-mail about the DoS attack. In the e-mail, the service provider said that the attack was affecting user log-in and causing some forums to be offline.”
I got nothing. No email, no notification, nothing. Just plain and simple frustration. Unfortunately, these attacks are most likely due to someone that was upset upset about something that was written on a WordPress blog, and they decided to take action against that by flooding the service or site with incoming data requests, such as e-mails.
Unbelievable. Come on people, take your anger out in the gym or something and leave us bloggers alone.
Hi, I had the same problem, starting intermittently yesterday afternoon and lasting that way until about 7 PM Hong Kong time when I couldn’t log in at all. That was the case for about 12 hours. I didn’t receive an email either. Oh well, I’m back at it again today. To your comments I can only add that WordPress should consider posting notes about service problems on the landing page of wordpress.org – which was accessible last night but told me nothing about the related wordpress.com service.
No-one was – sorry. It was an error in the story. But we are learning lessons from this about how we can get information to you and everyone else when events like this occur. We don’t want you to get annoyed and frustrated at us – that is not the way things should be here. And making sure there is information for you is the key part of doing this,
I’m sorry it happened though and that we did cause you trouble.
If you ever have any concerns email us direct at support@wordpress.com and we will get back to you.
Mark, it really troubles me when you lie like this on someone’s blog. It’s common knowledge that Automattic has no ethics policy in place but to go to someone’s blog like this and popst a bunch of lies is really troublesome.
Then please kindly stop doing it to folks. It’s a joke how you folks have gone out of your way to do this to people and then ignore it when clients and volunteers complain.
If you actually did that, then folks wouldn’t be annoyed and frustrated with you. We’ll file that one under “We listen to our users” and “Toni responds to emails,” other lies that have come from Automattic in the past.
-drmike
Phew, glad I switched to self hosted then. But now Murphy will follow me and I wont be able to access my blog.
And I will lose what is left of my mind.