I also tried to get on numerous times from 3:00PM to 7:00PM to see what was being said about the latest Globex ES fiasco. I could ping the server but could not access the web site.
The site was moved to a new, more powerful server today. Sorry for the inconvenience I would have preferred doing the move during off peak hours but the old server started misbehaving big time last night so I had to do something immediately.
Why not run a cluster attached to a SAN and have a load balancer balance the load? This way, as the site grows, just add a node? nitro