We have been experiencing a problem with the server that has nothing to do with Olbermann Watch or the new installation of MT 4.1 or a DoS attack or anything like that.

In the simplest terms, an unrelated site on the server which uses the same mySQL database used by OW was experiencing very high demand. To deal with that we moved OW to larger and larger servers. Even after moving to the largest available server we still ran into problems and so made a decision last night to shutdown the mySQL database. That reduced the load on the servers to a normal level. However, logins and adding comments are all "calls" to that same database. So, shutting down the database also means no one can login and no one can add a comment. For authors on the site like me and J$ it also means that we cannot add posts.

I am posting this now which should tell you that we are slowly brining pieces of the database back on line to see what happens at each stage. When the database is 100% online I will announce that here and the site will be fully functional.

This is NOT related to any sort of attack from far-left anti-OW hackers. In fact, the problem has nothing to do with OW at all. But we share a server and a database and when they catch a cold OlbyWatch sneezes.