Those we regularly read our blogs may have noticed an interruption to their usual Shiny service on Thursday/Friday last week. That's because the servers finally collapsed under the weight of too much traffic. They've been running at peak capacity for some time now and finally decided they'd had enough of the stress and strain and downed tools - I know how they feel sometimes.

Thankfully the guys at Headshift were around to sort things out for us and we were back up and running Friday night, around 7.30pm GMT. Unfortunately while we get the new kit sorted out - hopefully in the next couple of weeks - some of the sites' functionality, such as commenting, is restricted. But we are working closely with Headshift to get it all sorted. Ironically, they had just installed MT 4.2 across the sites for us, and it was working pretty darned fine, but we have known we have needed to upgrade the remaining tech infrastructure for some time now. Now we just need to make the necessary investment!