Sorry to those who missed my sites for the last day or so. My server star­ted act­ing strangely and wouldn’t respond to any requests. It took quite a few sup­port requests and a phone call before it was finally rebooted. It turns out there was an issue with the remote reboot:

Your server had prob­lems with it’s star­tup and our data­cen­ter wasn’t accept­ing reboot requests or set­ting up recov­ery mode. This was fixed, so it shouldn’t hap­pen again.

In all, the server and thus all the sites I host and all email was down for a little over 36 hours. If you tried to send me mail in that time, it’s likely I didn’t get it. Please re-send. It seems like I only got a small frac­tion (per­haps 10%) of the email sent dur­ing that period. I guess only the serv­ers which retry were able to deliver.

The prob­lem is, I don’t know what caused it to crash in the first place. I’ve not had a single prob­lem like this in the 9 months that I’ve had the server.

I did won­der whether it had any­thing to do with the new exper­i­mental proxy page I put up on the 23^rd. It has been incred­ibly pop­u­lar, rock­et­ing up the stats to become my fourth most pop­u­lar page in just 5 days! It has racked up an incred­ible 13,000 hits in that time, not­with­stand­ing that it was down for 36 hours too.

This also breaks my more-than-a-month blog silence!