My website has been down for a few days. Not that anyone noticed; danleslie.net hasn’t exactly broken the Alexa Top 50. No matter: my web strategy is based on the quality of visitors, not quantity. Rest assured, by reading this you’ve secured your place among an elite and rarified audience. A superniche.
The reason my website was down, it turns out, is because of a port blocking issue in the security profile of my EC2 instance at Amazon Web Services (#firstworldproblems). Whichever genius bar dropout thought that blocking port 80 by default would be a useful feature is deluded (whoever you are, you’re not making the world any more secure; you’re just causing thousands of people to wonder why their server isn’t responding).
Tech pundits, would-be stalkers, and obsessive ex girlfriends: port 80 is now unblocked, and you can all breathe a little easier.
