have you heard of the 'sonicwall'?
Ok...
Over the last few months, while I've been surfing, I've found "random" sites I couldn't access. It just seemed that it was disabled, taking offline. However, I "knew" they were there, because if I went through a proxy, I could access it. No idea what was causing it.
Anyways, today -- visiting yet another site -- but this time it "identified" itself, calling itself "sonic wall". I go to visit a site, and it says "this site has been blocked by sonicwall" (sonicwall.com). Seems they randomly take sites offline, and a lot sites are like this. (Doing a google search seems that they've been in business at least the last 5+ years, but more and more sites are being 'blocked' by geolocation, etc).
And apparently a bunch of DNS services, ISPs, etc, are subscribing to their automated bot service...
So... Might want to be something you'd check out for your business.
If you are wondering why you aren't getting a bunch of customers, say from Canada... the UK... Australia... Could be that your site is simply automatically being "blocked", and they can't see it in the first place... And then just figure that you are 'offline'...
I'm sure there are probably more services than just this one, but this 'sonicwall' seems to be one of the larger ones...
Johnathan
Over the last few months, while I've been surfing, I've found "random" sites I couldn't access. It just seemed that it was disabled, taking offline. However, I "knew" they were there, because if I went through a proxy, I could access it. No idea what was causing it.
Anyways, today -- visiting yet another site -- but this time it "identified" itself, calling itself "sonic wall". I go to visit a site, and it says "this site has been blocked by sonicwall" (sonicwall.com). Seems they randomly take sites offline, and a lot sites are like this. (Doing a google search seems that they've been in business at least the last 5+ years, but more and more sites are being 'blocked' by geolocation, etc).
And apparently a bunch of DNS services, ISPs, etc, are subscribing to their automated bot service...
So... Might want to be something you'd check out for your business.
If you are wondering why you aren't getting a bunch of customers, say from Canada... the UK... Australia... Could be that your site is simply automatically being "blocked", and they can't see it in the first place... And then just figure that you are 'offline'...
I'm sure there are probably more services than just this one, but this 'sonicwall' seems to be one of the larger ones...
Johnathan