live website creation and promotion

Several days ago, all our websites were unaccessible from time to time, this problem is fixed now. Here’s the quote from Joker.com, company that we use to register our domains and for DNS support:

A distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) of unknown origin started Monday, 2006-03-20
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Upstream providers reported traffic peaks of about 1.3 Gigabits per second on a single line. This was enough to overload our lines, causing communication problems between our border routers and the upstream providers, and thereby interrupting all services for a short period on 2006-03-20
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We responded by adding more nameservers, some of them being hosted in external data centers with own DDoS protection. We reserved more bandwidth for Joker.com exlusively, and implemented automatic systems to react on certain incidents.
These measures seem to have helped, since the later attacks did not affect our systems as much as the first one. In the near future, we will do more to protect your domains and our business against such criminal activities.

We know Joker.com as a very reliable service for already 2 years of good work and recommend it highly.

“In the beginning created God the heavens and the earth; and the earth was without form and empty, and darkness on the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was brooding on the face of the waters.”

Actually, it was simpler
I always wanted service like this and nobody yet made it. So I thought - maybe I have an opportunity here to build something useful, and benefit from all sides. And here it started…

The idea is ’social’ software list. People make lists of programs they use, tagging software into categories, thus making it possible to search by tag, find popular programs in various categories, track after your friends’ or colleagues’ new software picks, etc.

First thing was to find cool URL. I opened joker.com¹ and started whois queries. Suddenly I found that myprogs.net is free². Register it. 2 years. Visa details. Done!

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1. I’m using joker.com since 2003 and it always serviced my needs in good and reliable manner. It also has full DNS support in case you want to point your site to your home computer with static IP. See this as promotion from faithful customer
2. URL myprogs.com was already taken, but contained some small software store, nothing that can compete my site in any way. I also made some checks in Google and Del.icio.us to see that there’s nothing alike my idea yet.