Growth plus big news day equals steam coming out our ears. Sorry! Duct tape in place, major improvements hopefully not too far off.

Network outage at hosting provider. Sorry all!

Back now. Got to write some code for a change...

Sorry all - server is smoking right now, trying to figure out why

Welp, figured out why - because I am idiot. Routine code change exploded performance. Only took me 2 hours to think of reverting it. Sorry!

HN is down again with what appears to be a second disk failure. This is on the fallback server, which we switched to last night when the primary server failed. Will update when we know more. Sorry all!

Working on restoring from backups the slow way, since failover server also failed. No ETA yet, but we're getting there.

HN is running again, on a new server created from backups. Will be monitoring closely. Sorry everyone for the inconvenience!

Networking issues at our hosting provider. Sorry! Hoping to be back up soon

Copying a pile of analytics data. Hope to be back shortly.

Migrating data. Almost done.

Migrating data. Expect to be done in 20 minutes.

Compacting vote data for a few minutes.

When HN is readonly, you can make it go faster by visiting news.ycombinator.com/logout. Logged-out users get served from cache.

Routing confusion at HN's host while provisioning a new server. On the phone now. Sorry everybody.

Reorganizing some data. Might take half an hour, hopefully less.

Copying some data. Back in a couple minutes.

Sorry. Investigating...

Back. Unsatisfyingly, have no better answer than "Racket hung".

Connectivity problems reported by some users. Investigating.