You may have been wondering why our site has been intermittently unavailable for the last few days. If you're a diligent user, you would have noticed on the main page how it says to check out http://status.cementhorizon.com/ to find out what's going on.
Turns out our DNS providers problems are real, I'm not losing my mind. Here's what they wrote me back (after emailing the 3 times in 4 days).
Dear Sir/Madam, thank you for your email. Unfortunately there is a DDOS Attack on Joker.com Nameservers. Joker.com currently experiences extremely massive distributed denial of service attacks against nameservers. This affects the DNS resolution of Joker.com itself, and also domains which use the Joker.com nameservers. We condemn this attack on the sharpest, at the same time our network department works very hard and does everything in order to achieve a permanent solution. We are very sorry about this incident and for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you for your understanding and with best regards, your Joker.com team
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dude, who’s taking care of us while you’re gone?
It’s like a DVDADOS attack if you ask me.
c’mon, michele, the fine folks at joker.com condemn this attack on the sharpest. we’ll be fine.
maybe if they’d said “sharpie” i’d be more at ease. i could totally get behind condemning those smelly pens.
Michele, if you’re not with http://www.joker.com, you’re with the terrorists.
sean, http://www.joker.com is no joking matter.
See, Gene? I TOLD you you should have gone with http://www.mrfreeze.com.
I wonder which Joker. Cesar Romero? Jack Nicholson? Mark Hamill?
Since the issue is inconsistent performance, I’m guessing Mark Hamill. Goddamned giggling fool.