So much for the marketplace of ideas. This morning, web hosting company Hosting Matters was struck with a major denial-of-service attack, knocking several high-profile conservative blogs offline.
In the past, Hosting Matters has demonstrated its ability to prevent and respond to DoS attacks. Accordingly, it’s become home to a large concentration of right-thinking, high-traffic blogs, including our beloved Lone Star Times.
My RSS reader is spattered with red text, indicating sites that are unavailable. Here’s a list:
It looks like these attacks are the work of overseas hackers. So says Hosting Matters:
Well, we know who the target is, and we know where the likely source of the attack originates…and I sincerely doubt that country’s leadership has the least bit of concern for extraditing over something like this.
Michelle Malkin has more.
UPDATE (11:35 a.m.): The sites are back up. According to the Hosting Matters support forums, it looks like the attack originated from Saudi Arabia. HM personnel won’t release the name of the site targeted by the Islamofascist hackers, but Michelle says it’s Aaron’s CC, which is still down.
UPDATE (11:52 a.m.): Here’s my response at LST.
