Today, the Lieberman campaign irresponsibly accused Lamont supporters of hacking their website. By its own admission, the campaign had no evidence of any wrongdoing by its opponents. In fact, they don't know the site was hacked at all.
So, why doesn't Lieberman's website work? Some people on the Lamont team speculated that the Lieberman campaign defaulted on its internet bill. In fact, it's more likely that the website went down because of a surge in legitimate primary day traffic. The Lieberman is campaign fully paid up on their measly fifteen bucks a month ISP hosting. Kos explains:
But now I have the definitive answer as to why Lieberman's site went down.
They are paying $15/month for hosting at a place called MyHostCamp, with a bandwidth limit of 10GB. MyHostCamp is currently down, along with all their clients.
Here's the deal -- you get what you pay for. My hosting bill is now over $7K per month. A smaller site doesn't need that much bandwidth, but if you're paying $15 because your $12 million campaign is too freakin' cheap to pay for quality hosting, then don't go blaming your opponent when your shitty service goes out.
For their part, the Lamont campaign has offered its technical expertise to get Lieberman's site back up (which could be done in an hour by a competent sysadmin), and has added a link to the googlecached version of Lieberman's site at the top of their blog.
Lieberman should apologize to Lamont and his supporters. Lieberman's aides accused Lamont supporters of a federal crime on primary day. More likely, the Lieberman campaign has only itself to blame for its current predicament. What kind of buffoons buy fifteen bucks worth of bandwidth for a multi-million dollar campaign's website for the month of the biggest primary in America? Would you trust that team to know the difference between a DOS attack and a blown fuse?
These frivolous accusations on election day are despicable and they stink of desperation.
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