Hosting Matters probably thought that it was a coup to host Instapundit, and it was, in the sense that they've gotten a lot of other high-profile bloggers as well. But there's a down side. It's not clear whether or not this DOS attack is an attack on so-called "right-wing" bloggers, but right now, I'm glad that I don't share a pipe with him, and the others. It should be noted that, even if the attacks appear to be originating from Saudi Arabia, this doesn't meant that the Saudis are doing it. There's a reasonable chance that it's being done by zombie machines directed from elsewhere (perhaps as an attempt to frame the Saudis for it, or just because they may have more unprotected machines).

When one sees the long list of quality blogs that were brought down due to this, it makes one think that there should be some diversification in hosting services, to eliminate this potential single-point failure for a significant part of the blogosphere.

It was targeted pretty widely. Blogs weren't the only ones hit.

You're welcome.

By the way, I began warning the big HM blogs by email earlier this week.

Yeah, I'm the Aaron Michelle and LGF mentioned on their blogs today.

"I'm welcome" for what?

The Saudi web jihadis targeted Aaron earlier this month, and he was down for 10 days, give or take.

He appears to be the primary target again, and the others share his part of the network (or he shares their part, if one wants to nit-pick).

Sorry, but aarons.cc was/is not the target.

I may have missed something, but I don't recall any particular news that was worth bringing these sites down. I realize script kitties and such do things for their own jollies. However, what is the potential that someone in Saudi Arabia, or someone from somewhere else with sophistication to make it look like Saudi Arabia, is just playing around with DOS attacks?

This seems like some test run.

No offense to Hosting Matters, but I think that diversification of communications isn't such a bad idea. However, Hosting Matters could also change their server farm schema to assist in that endeavor.