Heavy Customer Moved

November 28, 2006

We believe that most of the brief mail outages over the past two weeks were caused by very heavy loads placed on our server by one of our most popular users being hit by incessant floods of comment spam. This customer has been moved off of gong.birdhouse.org and onto a dedicated server of his own. Our first day with this customer moved has seen a great reduction in load averages, and we believe this will solve the problem. Thanks for your patience as we sorted this out.