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[bryant]

Blah blah blah, Joe Lieberman’s web site went down. Lieberman said it was a DoS attack. Maybe it was something else. The quick Daily Kos response was that it was due to cheap hosting.

Now, that response makes no sense. On the one hand, Kos says the server was overcrowded. But MeetNed.com, which Kos says was hosted on the same servers, was up. So OK, not an overcrowded server. The hosting provider's own site is down. Obviously some kind of technical screw up, probably not a DoS attack, but the blithe snarky "this could be fixed in an hour by a competent sysadmin" crap... nah. Kos doesn't know what's going on and there's no obvious explanation.

Meanwhile, Jamie at Firedoglake goes nuts with glee when he finds out Lieberman moved his site to GoDaddy. Which, OK, is kinda funny considering Lieberman's got the whole anti-smut thing going, but...

"When I was hosted with GoDaddy, it cost me $3.99 a month and is still that price today."

Dedicated servers starting at $87.18 a month and going up from there. I mean... do some research.

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[head58.livejournal.com]

The cheap hosting thing on Kos sounded like a reactionary and under-informed statement to me (just as much as the "OMG we've been haxxored!" bit), yeah, so I'm glad to hear your opinion on this.

Either way, what's the big whoop about Lieberman's site being down the day of the voting? Does he really think that some folks hadn't made up their minds yet and were going to go onto the site to research Joe's positions at the 11th hour?

[bryant]

Well, it's kind of important for Get Out The Vote, which is the most important thing on Election Day. You want people to be able to go to the site and get rides to the polls, find out where the polls are, and so on.

It's not really as big a deal as Lieberman claims -- it didn't lose him the election -- but it does kind of suck.

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

What Lamont's webfolk did in response is, well, it's cheap and obvious class, but it's still class: they added a link on their page to the Google cache of Lieberman's site.

I think it's entirely possible the site was hacked -- most likely by some overenthusiastic nineteen-year-old in his parents' basement somewhere.