During the last ten days whizzbangsblog.com has been up and down more times than a yoyo in a kids school ground. This was due to being severely hampered by continuous DDOS assaults on my poor little personal server. Sure, the server did its best to respond to the 10,000+ requests per second but even computers have to say enough is enough. In the case of mine, it packed its bags and went on a computer holiday to avoid being smashed to smithereens.

After finally getting onto the box and turning off the apache webserver so that my commands took less than ten minutes or so each to enter I did some rummaging around the log files to see what I could find. It didn’t take me long to uncover the following line in the log:

173.245.49.155 - - [03/Sep/2011:11:56:41 +1000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 316 "http://shutupyourf##kingmouth.com/" "Mozilla/5.0(compatible;MSIE 6.0;Windows NT 5.2;MS-RTC LM 8;.NET CLR 3.0.30618;.NET4.0C)"

My sensibilities forced me to “##” out a couple of letters in the referrer so you’ll have to at least use your imagination on the message being sent to me.

Strangely, rather than getting angry or upset I felt a huge sense of pride. The recent articles that I wrote on the darker side of the domain industry involving people purchasing parking accounts and pumping out questionable traffic seemed to get such a response that at least one particular scumbag has taken the time and effort to DDOS my server and send me a message. Awesome! I must be doing something right! For all you fellow bloggers out there, wear a DDOS as a medal of pride that you’re doing something beneficial for the industry.

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