That would certainly explain the ego crushing blow to my traffic. At least that's the explanation I'm going with.

I don't think it was an attack this time, though I'm checking the logs to see if I can find anything.

Twice, roughly a week apart, the Apache server on Yuri (that is, the software, not the hardware) locked up and stopped serving web pages.

There's an automated system in place that restarts Apache when this happens.

It didn't work.

Manually restarting the web server didn't work either.

I had to reboot the machine to get it back again.

Right now I don't know why this is happening. It might be some sort of attack, but I have no specific reason to think so.

Unfortunately, this time it waited until just after I went to bed to screw everything up.

Well, that was fun. I got the server fixed, then the entire network went down.

I'm sure that i speak on behalf of the entire Munuvian crew when I express our heart-felt thanks for all you do for us.

Thanks.

Though I know we'd all prefer it if there was less for me to do in the first place.

Well, we'll get there. With Minx, the new site, new servers, and all sorts of other goodies coming in the next few months, we'll definitely get there.

Between the weirdness things, the newfound spammers, and the deferred not working, I'm really ready for the new stuff!

And yes, thanks so much because without you, we'd have nothing (or Blogger, which I might argue is worse than nothing).

Now if we can just figure out how to get you to stop sleeping...

And I don't think it was me, but the server yesterday did go down while I was posting. I had published a post and it was in the process of pinging (I had the "pinging sites" screen up) when it suddenly went with the "page not found" error.

"we'd have nothing (or Blogger, which I might argue is worse than nothing)."

hahaha Ogre