SoBIG / Blaster payload

[Joe]

There is a HUGE DDoS attack happening this morning - the general concensus of opinion is that Rackshack and the major datacenters are getting hit HARD by the payload of the SoBIG.F virus that was spreading around for the past couple of weeks (made national news). It's "payload" was scheduled to be unloaded today - which may explain this outage.

This has taken http://www.rackshack.net offline...

Not sure what the consequences are, but so far, we appear to have remained online. Keep your fingers crossed.