Doing some routine site maintenance

Hope to be done soon.

Should be able to support more concurrent user requests now

I finished making some fairly major changes to the backend configuration. I think it should sustain more users now.

Thanks as always for your patience!

[24-OCT-2012] Really heavy server load today, thanks for your patience

Hi everyone,

The good news is that BLF traffic is really high this week.
The bad news is that BLF traffic is really high this week.

Due to the heavy traffic, you’ll probably notice quite a few temporary offline messages today. On Monday the 29th of October I hope to make some major configuration changes on the backend to alleviate the load on the database. Meanwhile, thanks to everyone for their patience!

My apologies for the annoyances.

More outages today

Sorry for the outages. I'm trying to develop some functionality for the site, but something isn't working right and it's causing the number of database connections to hit the limits on our server. I'm trying to work with our webhost to resolve this.

Should be fixed now.

Thanks for your patience!

Site back online

Not sure what's going on, but I can't access BLF at the moment. I'm currently waiting on an answer from the webhost. Please excuse the inconvenience!

Fixed now after about 15 minutes. The problem was on the server side.

Bunch of errors and login problems

Please excuse our dust. Today I'm working on a few things on the backend, which are causing some temporary problems.

502 Bad Gateway Error

Not sure what's going on here...

Fixed now after a few minutes. The problem was on our webhost's side.

Server problems

At least for me, the site was briefly down. I'm waiting for our webhost to respond to the issue.

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Resolved now. Server reboot at the hosting company.