If you're having trouble loading my site ... well, so am I. Not sure why yet, but I will put in a trouble ticket with my hosting service and see if I can find out why. Hopefully, this is all just a momentary glitch.

UPDATE: Well, we found out what the problem was -- someone on the same server as us got extremely popular very quickly. Apparently, another Hosting Matters client serves as an aggregator for news from Iraq, and with the news over the past couple of days, they've been flooded with traffic. HM is moving the client to a separate server.

5/13 UPDATE: Still having problems, so if you've had bad luck connecting to me today, you're not alone. This time, a power failure in one cabinet led to a cascade of failures at HM's servers. Not related to what happened yesterday, so it really was just bum luck. (No offense to the homeless intended.)

Hosting Matters stays on top of their business, without a doubt. Stuff like this will happen, but it's encouraging to get such quick and efficient response.

UPDATE 3, 5/14: Okay, now it's starting to irritate me. I've had three good months with no problems, and all of a sudden three afternoons in a row, the works get gummed up. If you had trouble loading this, please bear with us as we find out what happened this time. Right now, I can't even get to the forums to check out the announcements ...

Okay, finally got into the forums. Apparently, nine different HM customers were hosting that Nick Berg murder video and the traffic overwhelmed their entire network. They've announced that they will disable that video on any of their shared servers from now on. (They offer dedicated-server hosting service plans that would eliminate this problem.)

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