Site Outages
I apologize for any difficulty you've had recently connecting to the site. This blog is hosted on a shared server at SiteGround.com. Unfortunately, when you're on a shared box you suffer along with hundreds of other providers whenever someone gets spammed, DDOSed, or hit by a runaway process or script. I know — I've been the culprit a few times before, and paid the price for it. But once in a while I'm also the victim, and that seems to be what's happening today.
According to the SiteGround support center, everything's hunkey dory. According to the server notification center, there are no updates or information that I should know about. So, when I go through the laborious process of collecting information, pulling together stats on server performance (see the graph behind
