{"id":8353,"date":"2011-09-26T05:42:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T10:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dobermandan.com\/?p=8353"},"modified":"2011-09-26T05:57:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T10:57:28","slug":"the-internet-is-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dobermandan.com\/blog\/the-internet-is-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet is under attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, 5:55 AM (Approx. 25 hours and 55 minutes after the initial attack.)<\/p>\n

Dear Friend,<\/p>\n

What will you do when the Internet is under attack?<\/p>\n

When hundreds of thousands or MILLIONS of websites are down… including all YOUR webites?<\/p>\n

Your sole method of doing business taken away.<\/p>\n

And it lasts days, weeks… or months.<\/p>\n

What will you do?<\/p>\n

Fear mongering, you say?<\/p>\n

Not at all.<\/p>\n

Over 700,000 websites have been down since 4:00 AM September 25, 2011 due to an attack on the ENTIRE InMotion Hosting company.<\/p>\n

And amongst those 700,000 sites, guess who has ALL their websites hosted there?<\/p>\n

Yup… moi’.<\/p>\n

DobermanDan.com is back up, obviously. (Duh!)<\/p>\n

But the other 15 or so sites… the ones I rely on for REAL businesses that support my family have been down for almost 26 hours… and continue to be down.<\/p>\n

Nowadays for most people, an attack like this means they’re out of business.<\/p>\n

But not me.<\/p>\n

See, I’ve been expecting this… and I’ve been prepared. (Not as prepared as I SHOULD have been… but that will soon be corrected.)<\/p>\n

But as far as this not affecting my income an awful lot, I’ve been prepared.<\/p>\n

How?<\/p>\n

1. I still send direct mail to my entire customer list.<\/p>\n

2. I’ve been set up since the very beginning to accept orders by phone.<\/p>\n

3. AND… I can process credit card orders by phone if there’s a problem with my merchant account provider’s website.<\/p>\n

Soooo… if this little act of Internet terrorism continues much longer…<\/p>\n

I’m switching to 100% OFFLINE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

…and my income will not be affected very much.<\/p>\n

(Actually, based on my 17 years experience with direct mail, my income will probably go UP!)<\/p>\n

If you do business with just a website and a Paypal account, how many days can you afford to be down like this and still feed your family?<\/p>\n

Something to think about, huh?<\/p>\n

Look… history, human nature and current events seem to show this won’t be the last time something like this happens… so a prudent person will be prepared.<\/p>\n

I’ve learned several things from this incident and so will InMotion Hosting. They will probably improve their security based on what they learned from all this.<\/p>\n

Ya know who else learned something?<\/p>\n

The hacker community.<\/p>\n

And they will be much better equipped for their next attack.<\/p>\n

Look… if you have a 100% online business… and you depend on that business to support the same bad habits I have (sleeping indoors and eating regularly)… you might want to give some thought to all this.<\/p>\n

Just in case you think I’m making all this up… click here to read about the attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All the best,
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P.S. Compared to other things I’ve been through, this one is a walk in the park.<\/p>\n

Isn’t it best to be prepared for the absolute worst… and if it turns out it ain’t that bad you’re still ahead of the poor, clueless and unprepared suckers?<\/p>\n

Hell, being prepared for the worst is the only reason I’m still alive today… when statistically I shouldn’t be.<\/p>\n

It ain’t paranoia… it’s just plain smart.<\/p>\n

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