{"id":1096,"date":"2015-02-17T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2015-02-17T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:20:54","slug":"botscout-seems-to-be-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2015\/02\/botscout-seems-to-be-in-trouble.html","title":{"rendered":"Botscout seems to be in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was testing BotScout.com functionality for checking spam. The software kept on timing out so I figured that I did something wrong. I tried to access the site and got a gateway timeout error. Eventually I was able to see the page, but the load time was very slow.<\/p>\n<p>I am guessing that they are experiencing a Denial of Service attack. I wish them luck. These attacks can go on for days. Lots of people use BotScout, HoneyPot and StopForumSpam. I remember that SFS was hit by DDOS and weathered it. Perhaps HoneyPot has been hit as well.<\/p>\n<p>This site (blogseye.com) was hit by a DDOS attack a while back, but that doesn&#8217;t affect me much other than forcing me to test software on my other hosts. I don&#8217;t make any money here and not being able to access my site was only a minor inconvenience for a day of two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was testing BotScout.com functionality for checking spam. The software kept on timing out so I figured that I did something wrong. I tried to access the site and got a gateway timeout error. Eventually I was able to see the page, but the load time was very slow. I am guessing that they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}