Been a week from hell for me... Site goes down and while beating my head against the wall, I miss an important appointment because my watch stopped working. Seemed like everything I touched broke... I was feeing so jinxed I was afraid to go to the bathroom. Talking to a friend telling him how my week was going and say to him half joking "what else could go wrong" and the next minute I get a text from my wife telling me we have no power at the house
Well the sites back up, power back on in the house and I get to buy a new watch
Thanks for all the phone calls, texts, emails and Facebook messages and posts. I appreciate all the support and patience while we sorted through the issues. Funny how some people were dealing with this... Most did not know what to do with all their spare time. One guy actually discovered he had a wife, 2 kids and a dog
We've had to make one significant but hopefully temporary change to the site. For now, we have locked any new regsitrations to the board. What caused our outage was an inordinant amout of Spammers attempting to register on the site. That was causing a large amount of new user verification emails to be sent which set off alarms at our hosting company so they shut us down.
Got to do some noodling on how we will handle new registrations.. I'm so wiped out right now I need to take some time to think about that with a clearer head so more on that to follow.
