Well, gosh

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why was my site down? Because it turns out the soft-on-Nazis fuckwits running DreamHost thought it would be a good idea to host the Daily Stormer.

My site will be moving. Until it has been moved, I won't be updating it; I will go back to posting reviews on DW.

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DH say the Nazis were already banned, signed on illicitly

[smilingslightly]

FWIW, An update with a response from Dreamhost was posted on that article:

Update (August 24, 10pm): Dreamhost has canceled the Daily Stormer's account. They e-mailed Ars a statement explaining the decision:

The Daily Stormer was once a customer of ours - many years ago. We did ask them to take their business elsewhere, again many years ago, as a result of a Terms of Service violation.

Unbeknownst to us, they signed up for domain service with us again yesterday for a domain name that was similar to dailystormer.com. The site owner took advantage of our automated signup form to register a domain name and once again become a DreamHost customer. This activity is specifically forbidden in our Terms of Service.

The opening of multiple accounts or service plans in order to bypass any restrictions or overage charges set forth by DreamHost is grounds for termination of all services. That alone was reason enough for us to disable this account, and we did so today.

Unfortunately, determined internet vigilantes weren’t willing to wait for us to take that action. They instead launched a DDoS attack against all of DreamHost this morning. We were ultimately able to declaw that attack, but the end result was that most of our customers experienced intermittent connectivity issues to their sites today. Services have been fully restored across DreamHost.

Re: DH say the Nazis were already banned, signed on illicitly

[dewline]

Well, that's interesting...

Re: DH say the Nazis were already banned, signed on illicitly

[iayork]

Not exactly the full-throated denunciation I'd like to see, but enough that I won't cancel my DH account for the moment.

Re: DH say the Nazis were already banned, signed on illicitly

[adrienneleigh]

Well, that's good to know. James still wants to move, and i MAY still be moving the rest of my stuff, but i no longer feel like i have to do it in quite such a disaster-evacuation fashion at least!