{"id":32846,"date":"2026-01-19T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32846"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:10:31","slug":"the-web-site-problem-should-be-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32846","title":{"rendered":"The web site problem should be fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/uptime-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"550\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32849\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After several calls to the hosting provider (GoDaddy), I think I finally got an accurate diagnosis on what has made this blog unreachable at times during the past four days. It was a denial of service (DoS) attack.<\/p>\n<p>I have upgraded the hosting level to get around the problem. Previously, the IP address of acornabbey.com was shared with a great many other domains. Thus a DoS attack on one of those domains would effect all of the many domains that are sharing a server and a TCP\/IP address. The upgraded hosting plan includes a unique TCP\/IP address for acornabbey.com. <\/p>\n<p>I should emphasize that it was not acornabbey.com that was the target of the DoS attack. This domain was just collateral damage. If you&#8217;ve had trouble reaching the blog recently, I apologize. We should be out of the woods now (but we&#8217;re still Into the Woods. &#x1f642; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several calls to the hosting provider (GoDaddy), I think I finally got an accurate diagnosis on what has made this blog unreachable at times during the past four days. It was a denial of service (DoS) attack. I have upgraded the hosting level to get around the problem. Previously, the IP address of acornabbey.com &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=32846\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The web site problem should be fixed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32853,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions\/32853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}