I tweeted this earlier but I just want to throw around a few ideas (hope Seun stays away long enough for us to have interesting replies).

A few theories:


1. My number one theory: Amazon EC2 went down around the same period. Sites like Quora, Reddit, FourSquare and so many web giants were offline. Coincidence?!! but Nairaland runs on PHP, how would that work on EC2? (Are you entirely sure: Nairalist runs on Python and Seun's also a Scala/Java guy).

2. Politically Motivated/Criminally motivated Denial Of Service Attack: Whatever the motivations, this seems like a plausible one too.

3. Nairaland is self hosted in OTA(  ) and the simple culprit is (Drum rolllsss), PHCN

4.Seun decided to do sys maintenance and did not care to inform us (Not possible: He cares more about his members than that).

5.  ?

{Your ideas are welcome}