From: mmalmi@cc.hut.fi Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:08:53 +0200 To: Satoshi Nakamoto Subject: Re: What was the bitcoin.org outage? > Do you know what caused that outage? Did it need to be rebooted, or > was it a DoS or something? The IP was pingable during the outage. I don't know what it was. It started working again when I rebooted it. Someone suggested it might have been the heavy load from a Reddit post about Bitcoin. Inspecting the logs would be useful, but I don't have much time now. > Did you get back to davidonpda about his doing a mirror backup? I > think that's a really good idea. Do you do any backups, or the VPS do > any for you automatically? I told him to go ahead. I don't do automatic backups atm. We should have more server admins soon when I get bitcoinexchange.com to another server. I could give the root password to you and somebody else. Xunie has volunteered, but we might find somebody even more professional outage was due to heavy load, he could help us move to lighttpd or optimize resources otherwise. Should we make a recruitment thread on the forum?