You’ll have noticed (I hope) that this site (along with a number of other sites I host on this server) went missing for a few days earlier this week. It just dropped off the internet at about Saturday lunchtime and didn’t reappear until Tuesday evening.
I’m still trying to find out exactly what happened, but I think it’s safe to say that 1 & 1 Internet are off my christmas card list for this year.
Update: Also, I know that the search box isn’t working. For some reason some bots became really attracted to it and were constantly making search requests which were bringing the server to its knees. I’m planning to replace it with a Google or Technorati search box when I have a spare minute or two. In the meantime, I’ve just turned off the execute bit on the search program. Unfortunately, this also stops the tag cloud from working.