Posterous Recovers from Massive Denial of Service Attacks

Founded in 2008, Posterous is an ingenious Web publishing platform that can take just about any file, photo or video sent in an e-mail attachment and automatically post it to a customer’s website or blog. Unfortunately the startup experienced a few glitches last week.

“On Wednesday and Friday, our servers were hit by massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks,” wrote co-founder and CEO Sachin Agarwal to his customers in an e-newsletter. Six days later, he continued, “I’m happy to report Posterous is at 100% and better than ever.”

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