On Tuesday I mentioned the LA power outage.  It turns out that it adversely affected my hosting company and they’ve only gotten things squared away this morning.  The full details can be found on the Dreamhost blog, but the short answer is that the building has a UPS system and five generators.  The system requires four of those five generators to function.  Unfortunately, two of them failed, causing a full shutdown of the datacenter.  When they finally got power back, a number of services had to be restored, and then their main router lost its primary supervisor card and had to switch to the backup (the supervisor card is the router’s CPU). 

One of the side-effects of the network problems they had was that database connections were running very slow.  The slow connections caused this site to respond slowly and it caused problems adding comments on The Bitch Girls, which is hosted on my account.  In the last hour it appears that the network issue has been fixed and the sites are responding as usual.