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My hosting company, Hosting Matters<\/a>, got hit by a Denial of Service attack this morning, directed at one of the sites hosted there. It knocked this site down for a while, too, though things seem to be coming back online and in order.<\/p>\n

In typically efficient fashion, not only was I able to monitor how the servers were doing remotely, but with the boards down the emergency boards came up and the HM folks kept all customers apprised. Nicely done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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