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Survival Blog is BACK UP
Outages like this are a good reminder of how much the preparedness community relies on a handful of major sites for daily news, product reviews, and practical how-to information. When a site like SurvivalBlog goes down, even for a short stretch, it highlights just how easy it is to become dependent on a single source for information that could matter in a real emergency. It is worth treating your favorite prepper sites the same way you would treat any other single point of failure in your planning.
A smart approach is to keep a running list of two or three alternate sources for the topics you care about most, whether that is homesteading, emergency medicine, food storage, or off-grid power, so a temporary outage never leaves you without information when you need it. Bookmarking key articles, saving PDFs of especially useful guides, or even printing out core reference material means you are not caught flat-footed if a site is down right when you need to look something up.
Downtime on sites like this is usually caused by a spike in traffic, a hosting issue, or in some cases a targeted attack, and most reputable sites get back online within a day or two. Still, it is a useful nudge to make sure your own preparedness knowledge does not live entirely on someone else's server. Building a personal reference library, digital or physical, of the articles and guides that matter most to your situation is one of the simplest ways to stay prepared even when your favorite resources are temporarily unavailable.
JWR appears to have the basic no-frills HTML up and running on the Utah server.To get your daily fix of Survival Blog, click here: http://64.92.111.122/
Headline from his site:
"A DDOS ("Ping") hacker attack on SurvivalBlog began just before midnight, GMT, on July 3rd. This was obviously timed for maximum effect since the hackers assumed that the Sys-Admins at our server site would be on vacation. Thanks for your patience while we get the full site back up and running on one of our backup servers."
Again, this is a GOOD REASON to get the ENTIRE SB database on CD for under $5!
In addition to being a good reason to buy the database, the DDoS attack also is a wake-up call to those who host such sites; be just as diligent with maintaining your IT skills as you are with your preps! SB came back fairly quickly, thanks to JWR, but I'm not sure others would've been able to do so.
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Good point TX
ReplyDeleteAnd into the third day goes the DDoS attack on SB...
ReplyDeleteI love JWR! He is the reason I found your blog!!!!
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