WU Wonky-ness? Here’s What’s Up.
By Writer Unboxed | January 29, 2012 |
Hi everyone,
If you’ve experienced problems with links, or any other form of wonky-ness relating to your experience at WU between Friday and today, we want you to know you’re not alone. On Friday, our web host informed us that WU was under a distributed denial-of-service attack, and needed to shut us down. We’ve been scrambling to recover ever since. With the help of our host, we’ve secured a new IP address among other things.
The timing was terrible, natch. Jane Friedman had a fantastic post up on Friday, which many tried to link to without success. And on Saturday, we began our planned three-day auction. You can find these posts here now, just scroll down, or click the links.
Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone. Hopefully things will be a little smoother moving forward.
All best,
Therese and Kath
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Write on!
You could dump the contents of the Exxon Valdez on the WU site and we’d all be waiting patiently for your return. No one’s going away.
Technology: it can be your best friend or your worst enemy. No worries. As Alex said your loyal fans will return.
No worries, WU Mamas! (Gosh, I imagine the past weekend was a major nightmare for you . . . so sorry.)
It happened to me two months ago, so believe me I understand. It’s majorly stressful. But you’re back up and running and that’s what counts!
So right, Kristan. I feel like a nervous deer, though, looking out for the next car.
Thanks for hanging in, everyone. Putting it in perspective, it’s a first world problem. Still stressful, though!