{"id":11154,"date":"2014-10-22T19:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2014-10-22T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:47:00","slug":"dxer-ca-down-but-not-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/dxer-ca-down-but-not-out\/","title":{"rendered":"DXer.ca: Down but not out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DXerDotCa\"<\/a>Many of you might have noticed that the popular Canadian DX website, DXer.ca<\/a>, has been offline for a few days.<\/p>\n

The server where DXer.ca is hosted has been under a persistent “denial of service” attack (much like we experienced last year<\/a>) which has forced a\u00a0move to a different web host.<\/p>\n

I’ve been in touch with\u00a0Colin Newell, editor and creator of DXer.ca, and he’s hopeful he’ll have DXer.ca back online within a few days or (worse-case) few weeks.<\/p>\n

We’ll make an announcement when DXer.ca is live again! \u00a0Good luck, Colin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of you might have noticed that the popular Canadian DX website, DXer.ca, has been offline for a few days. The server where DXer.ca is hosted has been under a persistent “denial of service” attack (much like we experienced last year) which has forced a\u00a0move to a different web host. I’ve been in touch with\u00a0Colin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[3345,779],"class_list":["post-11154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-colin-newell","tag-dxer-ca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2TU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16531,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/dx-podcast-returns\/","url_meta":{"origin":11154,"position":0},"title":"DX Podcast returns","author":"Thomas","date":"January 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Colin Newell from DXer.ca has just announced the return of the DX Podcast: The DXer.ca site has been on the air for over 20 years now! 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