Slow Server

Hi everyone. Sorry about the slow performance earlier. It was due to a combination of higher than usual traffic and a whole lot of referer spam. The server itself and the network were both working fine, but combined load, together with some issues with Apache and what looks like a bug in the referer spam bot, led to all the connections in Apache getting tied up.

I allowed for 250 simultaneous connections; under normal conditions it rarely goes above 100. And now that I've whacked the refererer spam, it's down to around 60, even though were are sending out nearly as many pages as before.

(Oh, and then I couldn't log in to my wireless internet connection, and my ADSL doesn't have a static IP, so I can't use that to log in to the server because it's behind a firewall, so I couldn't fix anything until I got to work. Meh.)