AdamW said:.....Do we know if the server is located at an internet "server farm", or is it at someone's house/office? If it is the latter then if the particular person was on holiday when there was a hard-disc crash or similar it would cause a delay.
ninebob said:Another of my favourite sites went down at exactly the same time as DIYnot, and came back up at exactly the same time too. An explanation on their site says the outage was caused by the failure of a router belonging to their service provider, MCI-WorldCom. Maybe DIYnot share the same provider?
pipme said:AdamW said:.....Do we know if the server is located at an internet "server farm", or is it at someone's house/office? If it is the latter then if the particular person was on holiday when there was a hard-disc crash or similar it would cause a delay.
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AdamW said:... I tried to get my own back once. I thought "right, I'll fight fire with fire" so attempted to install, amongst other things, Back Orifice (one of the best "hacking" tools ever, term used loosely as a proper hacker wouldn't need it and would call it lame!). Of course when I tried to install what was effectively a virus on my PC, Norton started shouting bad things at me so I had to cancel. Would have been pretty funny though, some idiot somewhere trying to attack my machine, then ends up getting his written off 2 minutes later!