We apologize for the lengthy outage today. It was a combination of confusion on the part of the hosting company (about who was supposed to fix the problem), and a genuine problem with the server. (For you geeks out there, a hard drive ribbon cable was bad and the RAID card got "confused", causing multiple reboots. The constant rebooting - eight times in 7 hours - screwed up the file system so bad that I had to do multiple fscks and syncs to get it working properly.)
Hopefully, the problems are resolved, but with computers, you never know. I think the urgency for getting a second server has gone up substantially, so John and Peg and I will be discussing that issue in the coming days. Right now we run everything on one server; website, Forums, email (imaps), smtp, dns services, webmail, etc. We need to move to a two server solution so that we can run the website on either server. That way, if the primary goes down, the secondary can take over while I troubleshoot the problem.
If you've been thinking about donating to the Stovebolt site, now would be a very good time to convert those thoughts to action.
