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Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:57.

There can, it seems, be too much of a good thing. JR’s inimitable contributions on the vexed issue of physical perfection may, by their popularity, have been responsible for the CPU problems we’ve had over the past few months.

In any event, our hosting service pulled the plug on us on Friday because we were starving other sites filed on the server. Can’t complain about that. Bluehost have a duty to their other paying customers.

JR has now cut back our CPU consumption and we are restored to life. It’s time to apologise to all MR readers who have been confronted by a “Site Suspended” notice over the last couple of days. We think the situation will be sufficiently stable to allow uninterrupted operation in the short-term. Long-term, another solution will have to be found - on which more later.

Thanks again for your patience and thanks for coming back.

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Comments:

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:22 | #

GW-Whew! I was afraid the site had been TOS’ed.And,I think it unkind to lay it on JR-I’ve seen some lenghty tomes from others that have elucidated a plethora of responses.It’s all to the advantage of MR,in the long run,as it validates it’s legitimacy.Anyway,glad you’re backup-find some more bandwidth! Cheers!

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:28 | #

Soren-That was my precise thinking that I expressed to JJR in an E-mail.June Gordon did not just show up here for a couple of days-out of nowhere,and with an attitude-look for a Morris Dees or ACLU type that was making an attempt to get MR TOS’ed. They troll sites such as these,hoping for a method of shutting them down,using the host’s “terms of service"clauses as a rationale I’ll bet some lawyers were trying to intimidate Bluehost for quite awhile.Fortunately,they apparently weren’t intimidated.If so,accolades to Bluehost. But,then again ,it could be lack of cache or bandwidth???

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:37 | #

Svi, the referrers page shows Google images pretty high in the rankings.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:48 | #

SVY-oops ,screwed up again-but everytime I see JR or JJR being deprecated in any fashion,I assume it’s Dr.Ray.Mea Culpa to all. Cheers

Posted by john ray on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:03 | #

Just a suggestion:

Why not move the “blue eyed beauty” thread to a blog of its own?

Posted by Lurqueur on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:17 | #

Create cyber-Lebensraum: dump the Antipodean egomaniac.

Posted by Salopian on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:14 | #

Even better, do both.

I see JJR is back spamming with half a dozen new entries today.

If we must have someone from the mainstream, what I’d like to see in this site is a proper “mainstream Conservative”.

PeeCee Peter Cuthbertson likes to hang out on blogs with views that are opposed to his own, rather than attend to his once popular site. Perhaps he could be persuaded to post here (under a pseudonym of course…)

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:44 | #

I join tough, gruff Nick Tamiroff in feeling bad about these attacks on John Ray and I’m glad that John 1) continues to post lots of entries here, 2) has a thick skin, and 3) is a gentleman. I admire him for all three—now more than ever, actually.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:48 | #

Positively the last thing John Ray is, incidentally, is an egomaniac. He’s closer to the diametrical opposite.