Sorry about the downtime guys. Turns out I'm a terrible system administrator.

What happened was the email queue was piled up with over 400,000 messages, aka 400,000 files, causing the server to use too many resources and stopping stuff from working (like basic database queries).

At first I suspected table corruption, so I stopped the web server and ran some tests on the database. Then the web server wouldn't restart. I worked throughout the whole night and finally figured out my issue and removed the email messages.

Now everything should be working. Except adding high-res photos or removing photos, which I plan to have fixed in a couple hours. Let me know if you see anything weird.

-Coomer

It all seems to be in order now. i've been thru almost everything and nothing is out of place, all placed links seem to be holding, and generated links are being generated correctly (it would seem).

i haven't messed with avatars today though...

And your not a terrible admin, Most guys with sites as large as this one usually have to hire staff it would seem that your doing a great job

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Agreed. For one guy with a full-time job and with the amount of visibility this site has and activity we generate, the uptime of the site is nothing short of pretty spectacular.

Thanks guys.

High-res photo uploads and photo removal is up again by the way. Everything should be back to normal.

Yeah def don't loose faith in yourself Coomer - it's quite the site you've built for us and it runs 99% perfect - I think we can live with a little downtime [It's actually a credit to your efforts that people feen like crackheads when the site is down ]
Keep up the killer work.

yeah dont worry about it, a guy I know who is also a webmaster keeps putting his site on Hiatus, and he comes and goes from the site, which is why you need staff admin and mod staff to be there when your not