.moon downtime

.moon is currently unavailable. Our host appears to be having major problems. Not only is THEIR website down, but the status page which is supposed to be hosted on an entirely different system so it will be available in situations like this is down as well. And that makes absolutely no sense. Did the CEO take the cashbox and run, or something? o.o

Just last night I was thinking about how to pay for the next year of hosting, and now I'm back to thinking about jumping ship. -_- At the very least, we'll be getting that mirror site I've always talked about making.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted if I find out anything.

.moon downtime update

The host's status page is back online with an update. A couple of key passages:

We are currently experiencing intermittent DNS outages on all of our nameservers, this is causing problems with sites and email functioning properly.

UPDATE (2007-04-08 03:20 PDT): It appears we are the victims of an Easter DOS attack against our nameservers, we have an admin at the datacenter and our network expert onhand to deal with it. Hopefully things will be back to normal shortly.

Ooookay. My nerd skillz are apparently lacking. A short Google trip later...

DOS attack: Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic.

Ah. A nameserver outage would explain the off-network status page being down, if the host registers its own domains (which it most likely does). So now at least we have some idea of what's up. Sucks to be them even more than it sucks to be us.

EDIT 7:15 AM: And we're back online. :D