WTF? Getting a little demanding aren't we agent so? Next thing we know you'll be demanding a refund.
I have a bone to pick with demanding, whining users and I'll be releasing an editorial soon. Its not like you pay anything to access my service which I pay the bills for and provide for free. If the system goes down and I'm not online to restart the server because I'm off living an offline life (heaven forbid) or working (gasp), then tough, please bother some other board. When its down and I see its down , I restart the system. If I don't see it down, then obviously it stays down. Running this board is an enjoyable (most of the time) hobby, not a job.
I don't deserve to be demanded an explanation. If you have a problem with that, then tough.
The forum gets down when traffic goes way up (over 300 online) and system resources utilized exceeds 90%. I've seen this happen on some other high traffic sites, in which case I restart the web service and everything is fine. This is a lot easier to do on this new system. On the old system, you'd just see that "Forbidden" message haunting you.
Obviously I don't like that it goes down, and chette and I would like to spend a few hours investigating and tweaking the server but until this board becomes a mission critical application instead of our personal playground that we allow you to visit and play in, then we'd rather give priority to other things.
rant off.