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Of course, when you decide to take an afternoon off as a webmaster and general master of a few domains, it is usually the case that such hedonism is repaid with some kind of “Server Not Available” message when you return.

If this is on a Friday evening, then that is all the better.

One of our main servers has decided to ‘mess itself’ this lunch time and we’ve only just managed to get things up and running again for a couple of sites that rely purely on that machine. We’re still working on what happened, but are reasonably sure it was caused by a huge mass of repeated attempts to access site at around 12:45pm BST.

Whether or not this is related, it also appears as though Stumbleupon has gone down too, as it has been totally offline and not showing any server responce whatsoever for quite some time now.

So its good to see it ain’t just us then!

Incidentally, we still have a number of websites running at well over the suggested capacity on shared hosting (mainly due to my tardiness in switching them over to dedicated servers), which are all running super smoothly.

Sometimes it pays to be lazy.

Here’s to a trouble free weekend, and a good AFL Grand Final.