p2p news / p2pnet: Speaking of UK student Alex Tew (right) and his Million Dollar Homepage site, it was hit by a DoS attack as Tew sold the final 1,000 pixels in an eBay auction for $38,100, says Netcraft.

“The attack left the milliondollarhomepage.com site unreachable for large portions of the day, as seen in a performance chart for the site,” it says.

We surfed over for a look at 6:24 AM Pacific and got, "Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at www.milliondollarhomepage.com."

The site received a major DDoS attack, and DDoS protection/prevention wasn’t included in the customer plan, Russell Weiss of InfoRelay Online Systems told Netcraft, but, “That said, we voluntarily took a number of steps to alleviate this attack while working within the appropriate budget.”

InfoRelay owns and operates Sitelutions, host to the Million Dollar Homepage.

Tew has promised to keep the site online for at least five years, says the story, adding:

"As the Internet’s newest millionaire, Tew can afford to reinvest some of his earnings in additional site maintenance. The 21-year-old UK student launched the site in September to pay his college expenses, offering 1 million pixels of ad space at $1 a pixel. The eBay auction brought the site’s total earnings to $1,037,100. The gimmick has also paid dividends to advertisers in the form of huge web traffic. Milliondollarhomepage.com has received up to 500,000 unique visitors per day."

Also See:
Alex Tew – $1 million for Firefox: goal, January 13, 2006
Netcraft – DDoS Attack Cited in Million Dollar Homepage Outage, January 13, 2006

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