Engine Stalls

Today, Warren Ellis was planning to launch his new forum, The Engine. I guess you can't always get what you wish for. Here's a post from his Bad Signal mailing list:

bad signal

WARREN ELLIS

You have killed my beautiful forum, you bastards.

Hee hee. It's still showing a "too many connections"

error to me. The Engine is on a huge box, I've got

something like 33 gig of bandwidth to burn per day,

Beehive forum software is tough and stable, and

you've STILL kneecapped it.

Just as well I decided to open a day early, eh? Give

it a day to shake out the place and stress-test it

before FELL #1 comes out, I thought...

I'm actually finding this pretty funny. So many people

were saying that no-one would give a shit... hell, I

wasn't expecting more than a thousand people in

the first 24 hours, if that...

If you're still trying to connect, give it up. I'll send a

note through later when things have stabilised.

I slashdotted myself. Heh.

-- W