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Oops… MSE does an unwitting DDOS…

Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis
Money Saving Expert
14 August 2009

The guide to buying repossessed property was a surprise hit in this week’s email. As always when we launch a new guide we’ve little idea of how popular it’ll be – and neither have the sites we include in it.

Most can’t quite believe the sheer weight of traffic that comes from something popular in the weekly email; the website propertyearth got a taste of it this week.

We got an email from the people there saying in a nutshell:

“The site had so many visitors yesterday- it crashed!”

Certainly a lot more pleasant than our own DDOS attack a couple of years ago…

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