For those of us who have WordPress blogs and found it difficult to post over the past couple of days, don't throw your computer out the window, it's innocent... this time. In fact, the popular blog hosting service WordPress.com was hit with a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack that flooded the site with incoming data requests and basically knocked out peoples' access to their own blogs.
I know I had some issues that involved some not-so-kind words to my computer as I tried to post to my blogs yesterday. I believe some others had trouble as well.
My issue isn't the attack however, I understand these things happen and the folks at Automattic worked quickly to resolve the problems, but I am upset that they didn't notify all the users. This IDG article claims they let all their users know, but those I spoke with were left in the dark. Hopefully WordPress will be more organized next time (oh yes, I'm sure they'll be a next time) and won't leave their bloggers glaring angrily at their computer screens, oblivious to the real reason the post they just spent an hour on got lost.