What Had Happened Was…
DL is back online. The DL hosting provider shut us down because the site was using up too many resources on their shared server environment. We suspect that it was due to a new plugin that was installed to make life easier for the authors. Unbeknownst to us, the plugin caused a bunch of alarms for the hosting provider. Inexplicably, they simply disabled the site and took days (5 to be specific) to re-enable it for an administrator to make the requested changes to optimize it. When they finally did, the changes were implemented in about an hour. Then it took an additional 48 hours to re-enable the site for everyone.
We will be re-examining our hosting provider relationship over the next few weeks and hopefully we can avoid outages like this in the future.
I should note that this is the longest that the site has been down since it’s founding 14 or so years ago. Thanks for sticking with us.
Is the hosting site called “Shadow”?
No, but it would be an apt description of their support level.
Glad your back, notice the site was “Forbidden” for awhile. Sounded exotic.
Russia
Nope. Amerika.
Glad you’re back!
We ran neck and neck, but I think we reached a solution before Iowa figured out who actually won.
No one missed your nonsense.
You apparently did. It’s so funny how you don’t see it.
You guys should get your own dedicated server from Amazon or some less evil company. Not very expensive. This shouldn’t even theoretically happen if you have your own server.