For no apparent reason, the stats on the primary web server (NC041) have been spotty lately, as you can see at https://up.niner.net, with uptime being measured at only 99.93% lately and numerous instances of downtime since 5 October, particularly in the last three days. This is approaching Microsoft Outlook/Hotmail’s uptime lately, which for many clients has been 0%!
So we have rebooted the server in the hope that we have cleared whatever might be causing the slowdown. This seems to have had an immediate positive effect, but we won’t know about stats over time for a few days.
Thank-you for your patience. We know you monitor things at least as well as we do.