Good afternoon folks,

As of about fifteen minutes about (1:25 PM EST) server6 became unavailable, we’ve got our crew investigating and additional updates will be available shortly. You can check for them here.

Update: System is now back online as of 1:41 PM EST, we’ll keep a close eye on it and post a full review of what occured here shortly. We’ve narrowed it down to a specific user & we’re seeing what we can do to mitigate the cpu usage in the meantime.

All sorted!

Update @ 4:45 PM EST

The hardware gods hate us. We’re currently investigating once again, we brought the system down as it spiked suddenly to 250+ odd load making it unmanageable. We’ve got some piece of bad hardware in it, it’s just a question of what.

We’ve got a replacement system coming in shortly, however in the meantime we’re working on replacing whichever piece of this one needs sorted.

p.s., just glanced at the calendar and realized it was a Monday – no surprise there.

Update: 4:54 PM EST – The system is online in some capacity, email, ftp and http should function fine but I don’t expect it to remain swell until we have the hardware investigated more thoroughly. We’re scheduling a couple of quick replacements — initially, just the RAID card as it does not appear to want to properly initialize. Hopefully that will calm things down.

Final update, for now: Things have been solid since the the system came online at 4:54 PM EST so we’re going to consider this resolved in the meantime. The raid array is reinitializing which means that there will be some slight latency but nothing visible to end-users.

Today’s earlier issue still seems 100% entirely hardware related not being aided much by obscene amounts of cpu & resources being allocated to certain sites on the system and spammers / comment spammers in full swing today. As noted earlier in the post we’ll be fully switching this server out for a replacement come about Wednesday, more information will be sent out to you via email. The new system is quite a bit more potent and has faster drives which will offset some of the IO overall. The switch will be seamless & we’ll keep in full touch during the migration.

For now, enjoy your evening.