Things are still broken, I’m sorry. They’ll be fixed soon. Here’s what happened:
The Church of the FSM site lives on a dedicated server, hosted by one of the largest hosting companies in the US. We get a lot of traffic, and the site runs off database-driven dynamic publishing engine (nerds, read: wordpress/mysql). Whenever we are linked by a site like digg or reddit or boingboing, the server goes down. We were stable unless traffic was unusually high. We upgraded memory and tweaked the settings. That helped but didn’t fix the problems, the server still went down a couple times a month.
We reprovisioned the server, installed a newer OS, moved to a faster machine, but it’s not enough. We’re still bogged down.
So, we’re moving to a new hosting company that has built for us a very powerful server. We’re making the switch today or tomorrow and then things should be finally stable.
Thank you for bearing with me.
-bobby