What an unpleasant surprise yesterday to wake up, slurp my coffee, and check out the latest on youMashTube...

...but youMashTube.com was nowhere to be found!

After an initial panic (nearly spilling my coffee) I found the culprit- our domain name registrar NameCheap was hit with a big DoS attack that blew out their DNS system, and left them unable to forward domain requests to our servers. So while our servers were just fine, anyone attempting to go to youmashtube.com just couldn't get there...

A DoS attack is a denial of service attack, which is basically a space-age cyberwar tactic where an angry ( or well-paid ) hacker sends sooo many requests to a company to effectively shut down their servers. If you're curious, read more on Wikipedia.

So apologies for the inconvenience, but afraid to say there wasn't much we could do about this one. Just glad we're back on track :)

We're going to have some new features coming soon, too... Get ready!