This site and a number of other projects are hosted on a Mac Mini that normally sits on my desk. Thing is…my desk moved. And, unfortunately, I didn’t confirm the firewall rules for the network in my new office before bringing the machine over. Thankfully Chris was happy to put the Mini on a different [...]

Posted July 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: downtime, firewalled, maisonbisson. One Comment.

It’s hard to be angry with Flickr about unexpected downtime when they post funny things like this.
For my part, this is more than just an excuse to link to DJ Ted Stevens’ Internet Song (yeah, “the internet is a series of tubes”), it’s an excuse to point out how Flickr apparently knows how to speak [...]

Posted July 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: challenge, downtime, error message, flickr, funny, language, libraries, ted stevens, the internet is a series of tubes, tubes. 2 Comments.

My hosting provider sent along the following message:
We have experienced a DDOS attack today January 4th, which resulted in latency across the entire network. During this time your domain, email, ftp and other services may have appeared to be offline, or intermittent. Our techs have been working as quickly as possible to block [...]

Posted January 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: attack, ddos, downtime, site news. Be the first one.