Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Yesterday and today servers at BlueHost have been under a DDOS attack. BlueHost believes it's aimed at them, not at any of their clients, which may well be the case though I'm slightly paranoid about who might use an army of zombie bots for what (trifling) purpose... BlueHost is working to resolve the problem but has no estimate of how long it may take for countermeasures to be effective. Sorry for the hopefully very temporary sporadic loss of service.