I’m sitting outside my cafe, across the street is the Tuesday Farmer’s Market. I’m wiping the foam from mouth as I down my two-shot espresso drink. For three to four days, our site has attacked by hackers from Russia.

We were snowballed for days. Some of us suspected it, but had no idea that it could and would happen to us. Ken, one of my partners, suspected it early on but I largely dismissed it thinking that it’s something that happens to others - not us. That was naive of me, to think so. I was wrong.

For three to four days, millions upon millions of requests flooded our web cluster, making a significant impact on our cluster’s ability to act as it should. It was pretty bad. Thankfully, Joyent summoned their network techies and identified the source and did their usual magic. Within moments, minutes literally, our site snapped back to its usual self, serving up pages and keeping our uses happy.

The lesson here is when all else fails, get immediate help. We received that from Joyent. Thank you.

- Mark

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