Back to normal

Day348
CafePress was back to normal today so I got my new Spring Break 2007 line uploaded. It seems weird to be working on that instead of Christmas, but with only 3 days until Christmas the shopping for that is pretty much over. (Certainly the online shopping!) Next stop Valentine’s Day!

I have also been working on finishing up all the reading I started when the site was down. Tomorrow I need to catch up on my ads again…

Some days it just doesn’t pay

Day346
Yesterday I started working on my Spring Break 2007 line and was really moving along adding products to my Back to School section. (Which I may have to rename to be more generic college now that I think about it. If anyone has an idea for a name for that section, feel free to leave a comment.)

Anyway, all of a sudden I couldn’t upload and then CaféPress’s site went down. I did other online things for the rest of the night, but although the site was up this morning, I still couldn’t upload. I was out most of today and evening, but it is no better tonight.

From the forums I learned CafePress suffered a DOS attack. According to Webopedia this is: Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic.

It’s really messed things up and pretty much killed productivity for a couple million shopkeepers.

This is definitely not one of the joys of online store ownership!