w-hat archive

I noticed today the w-hat archive appears to be down. Does anyone know anything more about this? For those who don't know this is a popular archive for storing data on the web via http

Yes, I noticed too. I use it for a Name2Key function, but no luck today

It's back.

It was raising a 500 error, which can be be caused by a huge number of things. An apache thread failed, ran out of memory to execute new tasks, internal gateway issues, anything.

Don't forget, if your building this in a commercial project, to add fallback databases. IE: http://www.moopf.com/name2key.php

Second Life was used for a denial of service attack against w-hat.com yesterday.

Here is a network traffic graph: http://w-hat.com/rtg.png

The sharp decline is where network-level flood protection kicked in. Not clear what caused the application to freeze yet, but it was between the first and second humps which is particularly mysterious~

Youch! Note that any httprequest from in world also sends the items owner in the header. Try going through you logs if you got any output. If they were dumb enough to use their main, you got them.

But I stick to what I say ^^ It probably ran out of user space memory to run in.