This morning’s situation.
A perl script installed by one of our customer’s created a severe cpu overage situation this morning. While the server was not “down” in the technical sense, it did appear that way for many users due to the rather long delay in page loading, this also caused non-critical systems to temporarily shutdown. We appologize for the inconvenience this has caused our clients and we are re-evaluating our cpu usage limits to minimize situations such as this in the future. Rogue and misconfigured scripting is a common cause of system issues for many webservers and it is occasionally difficult to properly balance acceptable peak usage levels with negative impact to clients.
