Hi,

One of the web servers crapped out this afternoon and with my new job I cannot just leave and go get it. The crash was so bad I couldn't even remotely login to kill & restart Apache. We're still maxing out bandwidth out, but it's not surprising to me since this is all hosting off a 1Mbit up connection. We're definitely going to need a lot more funding if we're to move to dedicated servers on faster lines.

Don't worry about being pissed off if it's slow or even not working. I am definitely pissed too. I really want a good working site for you all but with the funds we have now it's just not going to happen any time soon.

Ok, so that's the bad news, here's some good news.

I'll be adding another dual-core server to the lineup tomorrow night some time. That does mean we'll be having some down time since cluster 2 will be going offline.

Hopefully that'll mean less downtime on the machines, but there will still be the bandwidth issues...

We're trying here!!!

Update: We also did some mail service maintenance. We're using a different method of sending out emails. Hopefully this new way will let Hotmail, MSN and possibly Yahoo know that we're not some spam email server causing them to block us. It would definitely help if anyone with those accounts let them (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc...) that we're not spam and to not block us.

We're also working on allowing only registered & logged in users post support issues.