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Okay, so I thought that we were just getting mailbombed. [We were.] Turns out that Mark is testing out a different piece of forum software, and he’s been building a search index since last night. Makes so much more sense.

• We’re back online. Total downtime ~20 minutes. Better’n Twitter. #
• Wuhoh … time to run REPAIR TABLES on The Rumor Forum! Sonofa. #
• Okay, everybody back into the pool. And thanks to Smiley for getting the database tables repaired quickly. #

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A spammer is performing a botnet-based spamming attack on various non-existent addresses on rmfo-blogs.com right now, and that’s causing significant load on the server. It’s not thing that the server can’t handle, but it is working extra hard, and so other services may be slow. Because of the distributed nature of this mailbombing, there’s really no way to ban specific IP addresses and have that solve the problem for us.

Oddly enough, I’m not sure that there’s ever been a legitimate email address on rmfo-blogs.com.

The database server began acting up about ten minutes ago, so I attempted to shut it down for a reboot. It never wanted to do so successfully, so I took the Web server offline to allow the database server to close, but it never did. I forced a reboot of the machine, but it’s not come back online yet. Will advise.

1345 CST: We’re back online. Sorry about that!

1350 CST: Yes, we know that the tables are hosed on The Rumor Forum. A nice REPAIR TABLES run will work, but it’ll take time. Go play in traffic or something if you’re angry about this.

• WordPress upgrades are complete, save for those users who do it themselves. Those folks are asked to upgrade as soon as is possible! –GFM #

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