Blog2014 ≫ Popbitch hacked down by Lou Bega

Hmm confusing tales on the internets today about popbitch, was it chinese hackers or Lou Bega who brought down popbitch today? Or was it just that a new app was launched, and the content is loaded from popbitch.com1 and so the board2 was turned off for a few hours to lighten the load and make the app experience a bit smoother..?

If you've had trouble posting recently then don't worry, you're not alone, but we know why. It would appear to be the fault of some people in China spamming the board and trying to post (I kid you not) Lou Bega MP3s at a rate of 270000 an hour. So the board is going to shut down later today for a bit of weasel work but it'll be back up asap. In the meantime there's always this

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Paul Clarkeʼs weblog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Wed + father to two, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, running, eating, home-automation and other diy stuff, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.