If you tried to get onto Baristanet and couldn't yesterday evening, you weren't alone. For a while, the site wouldn't come up at all. Then it came up, but without pictures. Thousands of other blogs across the country, all hosted by TypePad, were similarly affected, by what TypePad calls a "sophisticated distributed denial of service attack."

Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com. Our network operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them.

Update, 11:40 pm PDT: Access and availability to our sites has improved. We continue to work closely with our Internet access providers and will monitor the situation through the night.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Coincidentally, Baristanet has been planning to switch to new hosting services starting this weekend. We are planning the change for Saturday night, the time of least traffic on the site, and we do expect some temporary loss of service during the transition.

May 3, 2006 in Buzz | Permalink