The world’s biggest software maker, Microsoft Corp, announced today its proposal to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 in cash and stocks. The surprise offer was timely as Yahoo’s stock slipped to a four-year low earlier this week. The offer represents a 62 percent premium above the closing price of Yahoo! common stock on Jan. 31, 2008. The convergence would offer a credible alternative for consumers, advertisers, and publishers as the market is currently dominated by Google.

At around 11:47am CST (Jan 31), it was reported that some PHP sites were loading slowly. Our entire System Administration team corrected the issue by adding additional capacity to our PHP4 cluster and addressed several networking connectivity issues that were causing a few sites to continue to load slowly. As of 1:52pm CST, PHP4 sites are now loading normally.  We apologize for any inconvenience today’s slowness may have caused you.

There was a networking error that occurred at 4:15pm CST.  It affected MySQL 5-6, and MySQL 5-9. The issues was resoved at 4:30pm CST and  all MySQL clusters are functioning properly now. We apologize for the inconvenience.  If you are still seeing issues or have any questions please contact us.