What an elfin' day. (That's actually ff, not lf but you get the idea). Our web server started going wonky Monday. Something was misbehaving and by yesterday, whatever it was absolutely overloaded the server. For any of you familiar with *nix, the load average was over 2000. For the layman, my home load average is usually under 1.0. Things start to slow down at 8-10.

Anyhoo... host says that a bad piece of hardware (RAID card) is to blame after a couple of restarts don't do the job. Ends up, the server has to be replaced and files restored from backups which has taken most of the day and night. Things have gone wonky in small ways in the meantime including the Forum looking like it had a major cosmetic issue which suddenly vanished a couple of hours later while I was clutching handfuls of my receding hairline.

Please be patient with us Wed. Go windsurf while it's windy or something useful. Things should be working but likely slow. If this continues, we'll have to pull up our tents and move but I'm hoping not. Our home for the last 8-9 years has been a relatively good one. Email me or PM me via the forums if you have any questions.