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Thursday, March 20, 2014

In Gold We Trust Under Attack

http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/gold-trust-attack

Since a couple of months there have been several cyber attacks on this website. Often I have trouble reaching the server to write and publish articles, WordPress (the software I use that manages my site) is very slow and all sorts of errors appear; drafts are deleted and certain functions in the software stop working. Drives me nuts. That’s from the inside. From the outside, for all you readers, my website has been offline for many hours, in certain areas of the world sometimes many days. I can remember one weekend I had to repeatedly call my webhost to ask what was happening because nobody around the world could get access. They told me the particular server that hosts my site was under a DDoS attack. Only after some tuning and rebooting they could get it back online again. I’m totally no expert in this field so I was tempted to think it was just bad luck and the problem would solve itself in time. However, the problem continued without any apparent technical reason. Even after some tips of my readers like using Cloudflare, the problem persisted.

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