🧩 Philosophy Aug 17, 2026 · Justin Weinberg

Site Attacked (?)

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Site Attacked (?)
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Over the past day or so, you may have noticed that Daily Nous was down quite a bit, and sluggish when you could access it.
It turn out there were over 127 million requests (web communications) initiated with Daily Nous over the past 24 hours or so. That is 135 times the normal amount.
According to my IT guy, the best explanation for this is that there was a DDOS attack on Daily Nous.
Why? Why now? I have no idea.
 
It took a little while to diagnose and address the issue. In the course of doing

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