Randomness Guide to London

RGL is unavailable! Oh noes!

bob says: "The fact that I can't get to the remote administration console suggests that it's either a nuclear strike or a network failure at our hosting provider. And I suspect we would have noticed a nuclear strike."

So it's not a problem with RGL itself, and hopefully will be resolved soon.

Update: 7 minutes after I post this... it's back!

Re-update: And it's gone again, and back again, and... I think it's time to go to bed.

As 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.