My site has been down since the 20th and I think it's finally back! Yeahhhhh!!!! :o) The company that hosts my site wrote the following paragraph, outlining the problem:
"The Denial of Service (DOS) attack against our systems has further intensified, continuing to impact the performance of our website and mail services. The intensity of the load we process on a normal day is approximately 1,600 packets per minute. We are currently processing in excess of 3 million packets per minute."
The increase was so huge that the server just couldn't keep up with the heavy traffic loads the attack caused... Dang people out there just sitting around the puter trying to cause problems for others... Why? I guess we may never know...