Hi all,
I just wanted to apologize for the extreme instability across all the Escape Artists sites today. We did a server move last night to try to make things better, and it appears to have done the opposite.
There was a combination of stuff going on, between bad connection settings and a Wordpress/Podpress bug that kept killing PHP. I think I've got all of that nailed down now, and things should be both stable and faster from here on. We're on a pair of VPS (virtual private server) slices now, one for the Web server and one for the database, and in the long term this should give a lot of room for growth. Eventually I'd like to get off of Wordpress entirely, but that's a long-term thing.
Thanks for your patience, and if you see anything acting flaky, please drop me a line to let me know.