electoral-vote.com under attack

[klah]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/...www.electoral-vote.com

 

[konichiwa]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: joshw10

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: tallest1

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: tallest1

Originally posted by: TranceNation
do you guys even know who the web site owner is? He's an OS god

I was about the say the same thing. Theres little chance in hell one would be able to kill a site hosted by Tanenbaum

Well I have much respect for Tannenbaum, but that does not speak for his ability to host a site and defend the site from network attack.

"The attackers have tried repeatedly to break in, but the server is a rock-solid Linux system which has stood up to everything they threw at it and hasn't crashed since I got it in May."

The above quote sure does

Is he doing the admin?

He says it's hosted at RocketHost

So quite possibly being professionaly admined then. Now if he were running it on minix, I will would be impressed

More likely a colo. Sounds like he's got pretty solid control over the box from reading his postings.

 

[konichiwa]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: cquark

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: cquark

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
What a load of crap. You know the guy is lying when he types - "Given that all the hate mail and threats I get come entirely from Republicans"
"right hate" :roll:

The site still sucks because it's a hodgepodge of polls.

CsG

Hmmm...who should I trust? Well-respected computer scientist Andrew Tanenbaum who actually has the emails in question or some right-wing Anandtech poster who doesn't? Dilemmas, dilemmas...

Yeah, who are we going to believe. Some Sierra club nutjob, and Democratic activist who makes claims like "all" and "entirely" or someone who looked at his site and learned that his methods were weak at best.

Yeah...I know who you choose :roll:

CsG

While I prefer Sam Wang's (http://election.princeton.edu/) meta-analysis of state polls</a> myself, I'll take a guy with the data who's shown he can be trusted in the past over a psuedonymous Anandtech poster known for his partisan retoric who hasn't seen any of the data and calls one of the most respected modern computer scientists a nutjob.

That's great - however I'll stick with realclearpolitics.com.
Yes, your guy is a political nutjob. His "method" is the most absurd way of measuring things. You do realize that he changes the states based on the latest poll - right? Meaning - whoever releases that day's poll last(or whichever he checks last) is the one he goes with? This guy has no credibility as far as this "electoral vote" thing goes and he's a leftist partisan to boot.

But yeah, go ahead and lap up his BS.

CsG

And realclearpolitics.com isn't partisan? Come on they've got a front page link from Drudge, give me a break. But then again I suppose you think Drudge is nonpartisan too :roll:

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: conjur
http://www.electoral-vote.com

The site has had technical problems repeatedly in the past several days and has been down several times. I didn't want to discuss this, but I don't want anyone to think the problem was an incompetent hosting service. Just the opposite. The site has been subjected to a full-scale, well-organized, massive attack with the clear intention to bring it down. The attackers have tried repeatedly to break in, but the server is a rock-solid Linux system which has stood up to everything they threw at it and hasn't crashed since I got it in May. While our troops are fighting and dying to bring freedom of speech to the Iraqi people, there are forces in America who find this concept no longer applicable to America. I don't know who is behind this attack yet (although we are working it), but it is too professional to be some teenager working from a home PC. Given that all the hate mail and threats I get come entirely from Republicans, I can make an educated guess which side is trying to silence me, but I won't say. And I won't surrender to cyberterrorists.

Staving off yesterday's attack was relatively easy. For $150, I upped my server capacity by adding an additional Pentium 4 with lots of bells and whistles. I have a few more tricks up my sleeve too. I must say the hosting company I am using, HostRocket has been fantastic. I burned through half a dozen web hosting companies before finding them. The others all promised the moon in their ads but the promised service vanished instantly as soon as they got paid. Hostrocket is a big company, with tens of thousands of customers, many of them large companies, and the technical staff is knowledgeable and very oriented towards helping the customers. They have done a wonderful job dealing with this attack. If you need a web hosting company for your business where reliability and customer service are top priorities, I recommend them very highly.

I am sure the attack will continue. In the event that the site goes down again, one way to at least get the score and the daily commentary is via the RSS feed. That is very difficult to take down. I would suggest going to the RSS information page now and print it out for future use. If the site goes down, you won't be able to get to it then. More on countermeasures in a few days. I will not let the forces of censorship win.

Interesting.

I don't care much for the site, myself, but it sure seems plenty on the right hate it much more!

Repblicans control elections *cough* Florida *cough? Who would have thunk it?