For the majority of the afternoon and evening of May 17, 2005, the network this server is connected to (not the server itself, simply another one on the same network) was under an incredibly heavy Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.
As a result of this attack, many of the sites and servers hosted on the target network were intermittently unavailable and inaccessible to the public at large.
As of approximately midnight, the attack seems to have either been blocked by an upstream provider or subsided on its own accord, and service has been fully restored.
I apologize for this inconvenience and have assurances from my hosting provider that they are doing everything within their power to prevent and prepare for any future attacks of this nature. Thanks to their spotless record of reliability and quality of service, I have no doubt this is the case. Thank you for your patience during these outages.
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