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I have to assume that there are some damned nasty hosting company customers out there, because hosting companies sure tend to pour it on when they think you’re doing Evil Things to their bandwidth. I had my experience with Averdata<\/a>. Now James Lileks regales us (with the usual high level of entertainment) on his experience with Interland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The after-the-fact amusing thing being that, hey, a dissastisfied customer will tell the world about these things<\/i>. And, given the nature of the Internet, that’s not an exagerration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to assume that there are some damned nasty hosting company customers out there, because hosting companies sure tend to pour it on when they think you’re doing Evil…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8736,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/dont_let_the_ba.html","url_meta":{"origin":2191,"position":0},"title":"Don’t let the bastards bring your server down","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Apr-06 11:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"My hosting company, Hosting Matters, got hit by a Denial of Service attack this morning, directed at one of the sites hosted there. 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