We've been getting hit by major search engine crawlers lately due to all the content and all the new blogs. There is also a new search engine startup out there that is doing heavy crawling trying to catch up with all the other search engines... they are very aggressive.

I just added some more memory the the system which should solve part of the problem... I'll have to keep making some adjustments to speed it up as well. The memory should definitely help, as we were running low.

Don't worry, we didn't go anywhere!

Server had some problems unexpectedly late last evening and was down most of the night... partially due to me not catching it until late.

Sorry for any inconvenience. We are backup and things seem fine.

Made a few changes, fixes, upgrades, etc. today...

* There was a bug with sending private messages to members that did not create a blog (people that just joined to comment/read blogs). It has been fixed -- you should now be able to send those memnbers PMs.

* I have added a "more" link to the Recent Posts area in the blog page... it goes to the history page and shows a list of all posts. I'll be improving that over time.

* I noticed the site was hanging a little and going slow sometimes. I think it is due to increase in users and viewing images -- every image on a page takes up server time... so I moved images to a separate server. It seems to have solved the problem but we'll have to see over time.

* I changed the blog search the other day to use google to do the search -- it's more powerful, faster, can find comments, shows more information and much more. There are just so many blogs now that it seemed to make sense. We will have to see how it works over time.

* I finally got off my duff and fixed the Blog List bugs -- some of you noticed that if you changed a category and a page at the same time it really didn't work, and the page change at the bottom didn't work correctly either. It should all be fixed now.