Da Interwebz is sick. Not that kind of sick but there is a problem going on between two of the large backbone companies that carry massive amounts of internet traffic. They seem to have a fiber-optic switch they share that is dropping about 5% of the traffic that passes thru it. That's only about .005% of all the traffic in the US but the starting number is HUGE!

We're one of the lucky websites whose connection to the interwebz seems to be close enough to the wonky switch that maybe 10% of all our connections are going thru it. It sucks. The front page, our most complex one, is loading slowly and in fits and starts as routing software tries to find a way around the bad switch. Bad switch, no cookie.

Hang in there. We are filing a trouble ticket with our ISP who can use the documentation to file a ticket with their upstream providers and finally someone will wakeup Ned Duzilch and get him to fix the problem. It's been going on for four days now and it's getting worse so finding the problem is getting more urgent and probably easier to do.

A lot of the above is speculation on my part based on a little information and some knowledge of how things work and I may be totally wrong in the details, but yeah, the problem is real and not in your machine or between your ears. :)

Hugs,
Erin