DDOS Attack – Not Chicken Little

Spane, 6 years old, in April of 2010
My own personal DDOS, Spane, 6 years old, in April of 2010
So, yesterday, August 9, 2012, there was a DDOS attack on the servers that host The Good Plate. This is the second time this has happened. This is not something for which the hosting provider is at fault – this is some miscreant doing damage.

Have you ever heard of a DDOS attack – it’s a Distributed Denial Of Service. Basically, thousands of computer send simultaneous requests to a single server, and there are so many requests that the server is unable to respond, and has to shut down until the attack stops.

It’s as if you’re in a room with a hundred people, and they are all asking you different questions at the same time. I don’t know about you, but sometimes, I feel like I’m under at DDOS attack when Spane starts asking me “Mom, why does this? Mom, why does that? Mom! Mom! Mom!”. You know how it goes if you have kids.

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Rosy Peaches with Ice Cream

rosy peaches with ice cream
Rosy Peaches with Ice Cream

Rosy peaches with ice cream are grilled peaches with rose preserves and peach ice cream.  Fresh peaches, ice cream, roses, and Marsala – what dessert could be more elegant?

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Barbeque Salads – Red Cabbage and Steamed Red Potato

My friends, Amber and Stevie invited me over for barbecue this evening. I love it when Stevie barbecues – he has a great big drum barbecue and he has my Weber until I drag it home some day. He said “I have a lot of meat, do you girls want to make potato salad?” and …

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