> I assume that means he is blocking certain parts of the US, if not the US in its entirety.

On what basis do you make that assumption?

It is still the internet, routing issues can and do occur. There is absolutely nothing in the configuration of my server(s) that would block anybody from any nation.

I'll alert my hosting provider to make sure they know about it just in case it's a novel thing and their monitoring didn't pick it up yet but it could easily be further upstream.

Your site has been offline, at least for me, since Saturday.

Interesting. Ok. I have passed on the info, thank you for the heads up.

I experience the same, UK based.

I'm in the UK and had no problems accessing it (Sky)

datapoint++: UK, BT, cannot access

Yes, but I'm in the UK.

I am too and can access it.

... and I can't.

Or couldn't. I changed IP address and can now.

Many/most people have dynamic IP addresses, and I wonder if Jacques' provider has aggressively blocked addresses that have been abused in the recent past.

There is a chance that they have some automatic DDOS protection mechanism kick in, I know they have some pretty aggressive counter measures in place to protect their links.

Anyway, the server is definitely 'open to all takers', nothing there that could cause this. Also, last Saturday ABN-AMRO (one of the bigger Dutch commercial banks) went offline for many hours due to a huge DDOS, this may be related but I never thought my lonely blog would be in the line of fire.

I've added the non-working IP address into the original reply in case that's of value.

Yes, very handy, thank you.