If you’ve had trouble getting through to my site, you aren’t alone. I’ve been having small to large outages for the past few weeks. I’m on my web host about this, but sometimes web hosts do this, and you have to bear through it… One of the frustrating things is that you don’t always know what causes it. Web hosts never admit to screwing up. They either dismiss it as a minor technical glitch beyond their control, or they blame it on a disruptive user on the server. With continued outages like this one, neither makes any sense; either they should have repaired the glitch or given the boot to the disruptive user long before now… which probably means it’s the web host screwing up somehow.

My apologies for the inconveniences. I’ll post a quick note when service seems to be stabilized.

Update: Great. I get a message back saying that the problem “was due vulnerable perl scripts running under a user,” and that they have “disabled that user.” Except when I check, my own site’s comment script has been disabled. Charming.

…And as I tried to post this, I got an error message. Can’t post, either. Swell. My site is up, but it’s also dead. [Obviously I posted this after the problem was fixed.]