Once again I must apologize for the site being out most of this morning. This one was 100% MY FAULT!
I had to make a small fix that should have taken a couple of minutes. I set my alarm and got up at 1:30 am, put the site in "maintenance mode", made the fix and tested it. Then I went back to bed without putting the site back online :-(
As you can see it is back now and working fine.
The main reason we are seeing so many problems recently is that we have outgrown the resources on our current servers. Normally we would just upgrade to a server with more resources, but that takes a lot of time and effort. Since we are almost finished with a major upgrade to the site that should be ready in about a month and is already running on a new more powerful server, we are trying to keep our focus on that project and keep the existing site running right where it is in the meantime.
Again, sorry for the outage last night and this morning. It is one thing when the site goes down for reasons beyond our control, but I really hate when it goes down because of my error!