My apologies for the long outage for almost 12 hours. Unfortunately I didn't check the site after I returned home last night, I went to bed, and I found it inoperable this morning, thus the long duration. The problem was that the index.php file permissions somehow got set to 0000 (no permissions for anybody to access it whatsover). The big question now is how that happened. I haven't touched those permissions for a long time. I need to investigate this, and I'll let you know ASAP.
Sorry again,
Have fun.
Update: I confirmed that it was not a hacker or a site malfunction. The hosting company made an uncharacteristically bad decision of crippling the site to reduce system resource usage. I am currently taking up that issue with the hosting company.
Thanks for fixing it. I was pretty freaked out when I woke up this morning and it was down. I thought my chicky did something nasty so I would spend more time with her and less time staring at the computer, paranoid not if they really are out to get you.
Update: I confirmed that it was not a hacker or a site malfunction. The hosting company made an uncharacteristically bad decision of crippling the site to reduce system resource usage. I am currently taking up that issue with the hosting company.
I'm glad we're back. Thanks for fixing it. Still, seems kind of drastic to go all Dr. Strangelove and chmod the whole site to 0 because of some load issues. Jeez, that's what email is for.
It may be a coincidence but it occurred almost immediately after I had deleted a large number of threads from my Watched list. I can't see how that would have caused it but there may be a link.
EDIT - Posted this before I read post 11. Please ignore.