RGL downtime.
Oct. 6th, 2010 01:03 pmAs you may have noticed, RGL is currently down. This is because nebula, the server it runs on, is having problems, and unfortunately
bob is in the middle of a very busy period at work so hasn't been able to sort it out yet. We're very sorry about this.
Hopefully the cause is simply that it's got overwhelmed by a DDOS or something similar (an attempt to bring a website down by sending it too many requests) and is sitting there spinning its gears not knowing what to do — rather than a disk failure which could lose us data. If it does turn out to be the latter, we have relatively recent offsite backups thanks to
therealdrhyde, and I also have copies of all new pages added since the date of the most recent offsite backup.
Summary: No need to panic, very sorry for the downtime, will keep you updated as and when I have more news.