Today several of you managed to get in touch with me to ask what was going on with the McCall's site. It was even more frustrating as the site would be up and then down. It was quite a seesaw, and I had no answer for you until later this evening when I received the following:
Dear Quilt Design Star finalists,
Dear Quilt Design Star finalists,
As some of you already know, voting for Quilt Design Star has not been available today. Our third-party contest tool, Upickem, is suffering from an unprecedented malicious attack, resulting in their web servers being brought down through sheer request volume. No loss of contest data will be experienced, and no other information has been stolen, lost or damaged. The attack simply affects the availability of the website server.
While we do not have a time frame as to how soon the servers will again be accessible, we do know that Upickem is working diligently to resolve this emergency.
Valerie
Valerie is McCall's webmaster, and so I guess all we can do is relax and wait for Upickem to fix the problem.
Valerie is McCall's webmaster, and so I guess all we can do is relax and wait for Upickem to fix the problem.
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