and so did my website!
GoDaddy is the host to more than 5 million websites. Unfortunately today I was one of them. In a matter of minutes, their servers were flooded with enough data to crash them. It took a few minutes for the world to realize that it was a large scale problem. And about five minutes later, a "hack-tavist" took to Twitter to claim responsibility. In the mean time, millions of small business users like myself sat and waited for business to be restored. Thankfully, I had a whole house to clean so I had plenty to keep me busy. But one will always wonder how many emails I missed, how many potential customers tried to get to our website. I'm still amazed how dependent we are on technology and how our daily lives can be affected by a single individual with a plan to be destructive. This on the eve of the 11th anniversary of September 11th.
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