The https://www.sqlite.org/ website is hosted by Linode, which is the target of a long-running DDoS attack. (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/01/01/2321211/linode-under-ddos-since-christmas?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter) The engineers at Linode have worked tirelessly over the holiday to keep services up. https://www.sqlite.org/ (and this mailing list) have been mostly unaffected. (We've had a few minutes of down-time but not that much.) https://www.sqlite.org/ is based in Linode's Dallas datacenter, whereas the brunt of the attack has been directed toward Atlanta.
If https://www.sqlite.org/ ever goes down in the future, please remember that there are two backup sites: http://www2.sqlite.org/ http://www3.sqlite.org/ The www2 site is also with Linode, but at a different data center (Newark) and www3 is with a different hosting provider (Hurricane Electric). Hopefully they will never all three fail at once. Notice that we have not purchased SSL certs for the backup sites - only for the primary site in Dallas. This mailing list is completely dependent on the Dallas datacenter. So if Dallas goes down, you might be cut off from the mailing list until the issue is resolved. But access to documentation, downloads, and to the Fossil repositories will still be available at the backups. -- D. Richard Hipp drh at sqlite.org
