h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You may have noticed recently that h2g2 was inaccessible for a fair while, so much so that withdrawal symptoms were starting to show, but we didn’t panic!

The reason for this was that our content delivery network (Cloudflare) was suffering from a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack. Some very naughty people were trying to bring down the network that we use to make sure that you get as smooth an access to the Earth Edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as we possibly can, and until measures were put in place to defeat this attack, we weren’t able to provide the access to your collected wit and wisdom that we wished.

We’d like to apologise on behalf of our providers for this, and to assure you then they worked very hard to do everything they could to stop the very naughty people from disrupting your pleasure.

For Pastey and Tech

/Milla

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Thanks!

The stiff upper lips can now relax.

Great work, all!

How recent was this downtime? If it was this morning I didn't even notice it. I did notice some outages a week or two ago. Were those related to this DDS?

It was about a week ago. I was getting frantic!

Then I found my and calmed down a bit.

'Some nasty people'.... come on.... just say it was the Vogons, its that* obvious

I seriously wondered was it the End of h2g2. Was very relieved when the site came back.

So were we.

Ah, *D*DOS.

I thought you'd upgraded your operating system to DOS.

I didn't notice it. Perhaps I am living in a parallel universe.

curses Moriarty! I knew they'd find me one day, all because I own them 2 bob (2 shillings 24 pennies/20p) - now to plan B

Moriarty? Ha! We should be so lucky! It was V*ldem*rt, I tell you! V*LDEM*RT!

Actually, Prof, 2 shillings is 10p in 'new money'.

It's good to know the problem has been found and dealt with. Thanks for the info.

I was just warming up to a nice with Pierce the Pirate when the system, drifting in and out, went out completely.

Blasted Vogons.

oops! so it was CD. err! lost in accounts dept'

Persistence is futile, ITIWBS

Must admit I never had you down as the , so thanks for the heads up

*settles down next to tennis court and waits for and ITIWBS to return from the showers*