It’s been one of those days
by HML
… and it’s not over yet, unfortunately.
If you tried to visit GimletBlog, Sinister Craftiness, or Solitary Elegance today, you were probably greeted with a nasty “Access Denied” page. Our web hosting service determined our account was overloading their servers, shut us down, then apparently took a lunch break, so we couldn’t get access to our files to try and fix whatever was wrong until this afternoon. Our buddy Editrix over at AustenBlog uses the same web hosting service and had her web site shut down for the same reason. After putting our heads together, we think the problem was probably bots hammering our sites looking for a way to break in and hack us. To that end, I’m going to be checking our access logs, comparing them with the other visitor data, and banning the IP addresses that are no friends to GimletBlog. We are also considering today’s lockout as a good reminder to back up everything, just in case. Between backups and the access logs, it’s going to be a long night.
We apologize for the inconvenience, especially to those new visitors from the BSA blog who have been trying to read Thing One’s WashJam review today. Please bear with us while we come up with a good solution to this problem. If your IP address is banned by mistake, send us an email (if you’re a friend, you should already know our email addresses, but you might want to jot down GimletBlog’s contact email just in case) and we’ll take you off our Bad List.
