How I Got “Thown Off” the Internet!
Thought I had died didn’t you? Well, no such luck. My service provider was hit with what I guessed to be a DoS attack. During the downtime it appeared that all sites useing my host were also down, thus the DoS theory.
My theory was off base by a bit, but the explaination for the outage raised a question in my mind. Background: My host is located in Manila, Philippines. It’s data center is in Dallas Texas. There is a time differential between the two of 12 hours, 11pm 10 Feb in Manila is 11am 10 Feb. in Dallas. Here is the explaination for the 18 hour outage:
“This was due to some mis-understanding with the Accounting Dept of our Data Center (ThePlanet) with regards to our account. Apparently, the situation was exacerbated by the time zone differences….”
Am I crazy or does that sound like the host didn’t pay their bill on time? If that’s the case why? If they paid at the exact minute of expiration Dallas time they’re shouldn’t have been an interuption in service. If the host paid on the exact minute Manila time they would have been 12 hours ahead of the expiration time. Strange. No?
Meanwhile I suffered blogging withdrawal symptoms: cold sweats, fever, a twitching thumb in constant search of the “space key.” And a pissed off wife because I made a pest of myself around the kitchen.
It was hell I tell ya!
