I guess I’m a lucky one!  All kidding aside, sorry about your troubles Matthew.

The box that connects us to the Internet really needed replacing. The white plastic was actually discolored from a few years of being warm. AND it was causing brief outages (personal outages, just for me!) all by itself. 

If I had known, however, what a can of worms this was going to be, I might have put it off a bit longer. Or at least prepared better.

I thought the NWO had taken you out.

With all due respect, that's never going to happen. 
Or, HOW exactly did you think that would play out? Did you really think black helicopters fired missiles at my house on Friday? Really?

Do you understand I'm self-hosted? About the only way to take out CathInfo would be to shut down my utilities -- or for me to have average, residential Internet problems. But you see, Internet issues (company upgrading hardware, having growing pains, causing outages to their customers, static IP address issues, etc.) are always TEMPORARY.

So can "stuff happen" to take down CathInfo for a day or two? Sure.  But "take down CathInfo" as in take it down for more than a few days? No.

I keep backups of the site. Server hardware (a.k.a. PC hardware -- my "servers" are more like high-end PC workstations) is still for sale. Linux, apache, MySQL, PHP, etc. can be downloaded from the Internet. The Internet as a whole is up and accessible. No vaccine is required to access the Internet. As long as those things are true, CathInfo isn't going anywhere.

When they start rounding people up to "the camps"? Then maybe. When cινιℓ ωαr breaks out and electricity goes out to large swaths of the United States? Then maybe. When cancel culture reaches the point where water companies and electric companies start cancelling people -- then maybe we'll talk. But we are certainly not there yet.

The most controversial figures can't use Paypal, GoFundMe, certain financial products, or things like MailChimp mass e-mailing services. But I don't need any of those things to keep CathInfo up. I don't even need a webhost. That's the key.

Was up and down for me too. I figured it was a DDOS

Seems good now though 

With all due respect, that's never going to happen. 
Or, HOW exactly did you think that would play out? Did you really think black helicopters fired missiles at my house on Friday? Really?

Do you understand I'm self-hosted? About the only way to take out CathInfo would be to shut down my utilities -- or for me to have average, residential Internet problems. But you see, Internet issues (company upgrading hardware, having growing pains, causing outages to their customers, static IP address issues, etc.) are always TEMPORARY.

So can "stuff happen" to take down CathInfo for a day or two? Sure.  But "take down CathInfo" as in take it down for more than a few days? No.

I keep backups of the site. Server hardware (a.k.a. PC hardware -- my "servers" are more like high-end PC workstations) is still for sale. Linux, apache, MySQL, PHP, etc. can be downloaded from the Internet. The Internet as a whole is up and accessible. No vaccine is required to access the Internet. As long as those things are true, CathInfo isn't going anywhere.

When they start rounding people up to "the camps"? Then maybe. When cινιℓ ωαr breaks out and electricity goes out to large swaths of the United States? Then maybe. When cancel culture reaches the point where water companies and electric companies start cancelling people -- then maybe we'll talk. But we are certainly not there yet.

The most controversial figures can't use Paypal, GoFundMe, certain financial products, or things like MailChimp mass e-mailing services. But I don't need any of those things to keep CathInfo up. I don't even need a webhost. That's the key.

It was a joke. Anyway, it seems to be back up now. I have checked on two different browsers and computers, and I was able to get in without a problem.

It was a joke. Anyway, it seems to be back up now. I have checked on two different browsers and computers, and I was able to get in without a problem.

Yes, I realize you were mostly joking -- but it's something a LOT of people keep thinking, the first thing they think, every time my Internet goes down here at CathInfo HQ for more than an hour.

I just wanted to put that rumor out of its misery, once and for all. So it's nothing personal against you, sorry if it came off that way.

With all due respect, that's never going to happen. 
Or, HOW exactly did you think that would play out? Did you really think black helicopters fired missiles at my house on Friday? Really?

Do you understand I'm self-hosted? About the only way to take out CathInfo would be to shut down my utilities -- or for me to have average, residential Internet problems. But you see, Internet issues (company upgrading hardware, having growing pains, causing outages to their customers, static IP address issues, etc.) are always TEMPORARY.

So can "stuff happen" to take down CathInfo for a day or two? Sure.  But "take down CathInfo" as in take it down for more than a few days? No.

I keep backups of the site. Server hardware (a.k.a. PC hardware -- my "servers" are more like high-end PC workstations) is still for sale. Linux, apache, MySQL, PHP, etc. can be downloaded from the Internet. The Internet as a whole is up and accessible. No vaccine is required to access the Internet. As long as those things are true, CathInfo isn't going anywhere.

When they start rounding people up to "the camps"? Then maybe. When cινιℓ ωαr breaks out and electricity goes out to large swaths of the United States? Then maybe. When cancel culture reaches the point where water companies and electric companies start cancelling people -- then maybe we'll talk. But we are certainly not there yet.

The most controversial figures can't use Paypal, GoFundMe, certain financial products, or things like MailChimp mass e-mailing services. But I don't need any of those things to keep CathInfo up. I don't even need a webhost. That's the key.

I'm not sure it's that outrageous.  They could just have the ISP take you down on account of the content here on CI.  I'm actually a bit surprised that they haven't already tried -- except that perhaps they think the forum/site is small enough that it's not any kind of threat to them.  I bet that if somehow membership and traffic on this site exploded, they'd be getting a corrupt judge issue an order to the ISP to take down your connectivity.  They blocked the President of the United States off of Twitter, Facebook, etc. ... well short of before they start rounding people up into camps.  And even the temporary outage could be caused by a DDOS attack.