apologies

My apologies folks, quite a few people have emailed me and I've been extremely difficult to get ahold of lately. I've had a mishmash of severe work issues lately. Geeze, I'm supposed to be semi-retired. Got a flood of emergencies all at once and I'm going to be out of pocket for a week or so yet. Sampling of the crap for those who care to commisurate... We host a lot of websites for music groups... John Fogharty, Steve Winwood, Keller Williams, DoubleDose, String Cheese Incident... and... the DresdenDolls. The dresden dolls announced recently that they were going on tour with Nine Inch Nails. Wonder of wonder, suddenly their website was sucking up to 45mbps sustained. Maybe it had to do with all those live performance videos & mp3 files. Anyways... I've spent a lot of time dealing with that (as well as the politics of getting them to pay for the bandwidth). bw_mod has become my friend. Then, for the past two days I noticed some network oddities (you know, when an admin can't quite put their finger on it but knows something is amiss)... well, about 6pm tonight I found the culprit. One of the servers that is colocated with us by another band (not managed by us) got hacked. I found all kinds of wonderful udp flood scripts, paypal scripts, irc bots, etc. When will admins learn that their laziness affects others. Anyways, they've charged me with cleaning up their mess. Add that to the part time work I'm supposed to be doing, and, well... loosely translated, forgive me if I take a while to get back to people for a short bit. Jay