Downtime

Sorry, we had to take the server offline for maintenance. Here is an overview of what happened (copypasted from irc):

[18:31]  the ddos used up all available connections
[18:31]  so I used a config tool to up the connection limit
[18:31]  but the config tool added a newline in a comment in the config file
[18:31]  and part of the comment was parsed as a directive
[18:32]  this filled the error log with errors
[18:32]  and /var was completely full
[18:32]  because /var was full
[18:32]  mysql crashed
[18:32]  and the system wouldn't start except in single user mode
[18:32]  so I had to log in with vmware-server-console to get single user mode and delete the logs
[18:32]  In the process of restarting mysql, it broke the database
[18:33]  the auto-incrementing column in one of the tables broke
[18:33]  so I had to dump and reload the whole database
[18:33]  :D
[18:33]  A nice days work