On Thursday, a judge ruled that federal prosecutors could continue with a search warrant to pull records on those that visited an Inauguration Day protest website, hosted by DreamHost.
DreamHost said they would consider appealing the judge's ruling and met with the Department of Justice to discuss.
Around the same time, DreamHost was hit by a massive DDoS attack that took down most of its services.
The attack began at 9:20 a.m. PDT; DreamHost posted a tweet two hours later announcing that they were mitigating the attack and had set up a separate site to follow their progress.
Ironically, minutes before the attack hit, The Punished Stormer, a spin-off of a white supremacist website, The Daily Stormer, briefly appeared using DreamHost services.
There is avid speculation as to whether the DDoS attack was related to the Department of Justice hearing or to the reboot of the neo-Nazi site.
Although DreamHost told TechCrunch that this is not the case, and that the attacks "would not seem to be related".
The DDoS attack was mitigated approximately 3 hours after it began, and DreamHost tweeted at 12:27 that "all services have been restored and are operational".
What do you think was the cause of the DDoS? Was it in protest of the DOJ hearing, the white supremacist site, or something else entirely?
