This is strike one
I may have sung the praises of Blue Host prematurely, as there have been some problems with my hosting past couple days. The http and sql services on the Blue Host server have been periodically going down, which results in anybody trying to visit the website not being able to do so. Today all the important services went down several times again, and every time they would get one service back up another would crash. I watched their machine get torn up like this all day long, and decided to give them a call after I got off work to see what the problem was. After waiting on hold for a decent while I spoke to a guy who said that the particular server my site is hosted on was on the receiving end of a DDoS* attack. Why somebody would want to bring down one of the Blue Host servers, I don’t know. It may be the case that the guy I spoke to was just trying to cover up one of the server going crazy for a reason they didn’t want to admit, like the server being overpopulated with too many customer sites. We’ll see how it goes over the next couple days.
People are still downloading myDesktop Online, and several other sites have picked it up for download (try googling it). Now that I see that people are actually interested in using it, I’ll start thinking of some features for the next version. Somebody suggested including an option for the monitor to not take a screenshot if certain “sensitive” (sensitive as defined by the user) windows are open, and I can see some situations where this would be a good idea. There are also some bugs that have been uncovered now that people are using the program as well. One particularly bad bug causes the program to eat up ALL of the system memory and then crash. The problem is that the bug only hits after hours of running (sometimes days) so I can’t really sit around and watch a debugger waiting for it to hit. Anyone have any suggestion for debugging something like this? I’m all ears….
* - A DDoS attack is when somebody decides to try to bring down a server by using a farm of computers to generate bogus requests. The point is to overwhelm the server with these requests so it eventually has to be brought offline.
