02-22-2024, 08:16 PM
Two items converged a bit for me: Ed's post the other day about the financial collapse and Ben's short video on the widespread Internet outages this morning:
In mornings when I go into the office, I usually spend some time in a Starbucks to do some personal things, writing, etc., when I noticed a lot of slow going trying to load the forum here, but also my personal email and blog, all of which are hosted on Bluehost:
At first I thought it was an issue with Bluehost's servers, but when I could eventually log into my hosting account, there was nothing particularly wrong with my servers' health. Then I noticed the site used to manage my kid's school finances (probably not hosted by Bluehost) was showing really weird errors here and there, and bad connectivity.
As Ben says in the video, there's not a chance in the world this was a hacking attempt if so many Internet-based services were affected. The likely candidate was the solar flaring. See this facebook post from downdetector.com. There were dozens more sites and services like the one in the image that had similar troubles.
I'm thinking that the Internet will likely go poof from a moderate flare before the electrical grids worldwide are zapped, if both don't get wrecked during the same event.
We live in interesting times.
In mornings when I go into the office, I usually spend some time in a Starbucks to do some personal things, writing, etc., when I noticed a lot of slow going trying to load the forum here, but also my personal email and blog, all of which are hosted on Bluehost:
At first I thought it was an issue with Bluehost's servers, but when I could eventually log into my hosting account, there was nothing particularly wrong with my servers' health. Then I noticed the site used to manage my kid's school finances (probably not hosted by Bluehost) was showing really weird errors here and there, and bad connectivity.
As Ben says in the video, there's not a chance in the world this was a hacking attempt if so many Internet-based services were affected. The likely candidate was the solar flaring. See this facebook post from downdetector.com. There were dozens more sites and services like the one in the image that had similar troubles.
I'm thinking that the Internet will likely go poof from a moderate flare before the electrical grids worldwide are zapped, if both don't get wrecked during the same event.
We live in interesting times.