A feminist blog called Femsplain was taken offline on Sunday by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

DDoS attacks attempt to overwhelm servers and take them offline by directing excessive traffic to a website.


Femsplain's founder, Amber Gordon, told The Verge her website was down for about three hours.

"We constantly have people attacking us and attempting to bring our website down," she said. "It's unfortunate but the reality of our mission."

She said this attack was much worse than usual. The attack coincided with Sunday's commemoration of International Women's Day.

This is what a DDoS attack looks like in case you were wondering. pic.twitter.com/0xS9KzvGqn — Amber (@missambear) March 8, 2015