Above the Fold

Well, I was studying why the system has been so damn slow lately and we discovered that there was a hacker "exploit" at work, using our server to send out spam. Not only does this make us look bad to the spam receivers of the world, but it seemed to be slowing everything else down. We rebooted the server just to temporarily kick off our parasite and I noticed that Movable Type immediately became snappily responsive like it hasn't been for quite some time.

We still need to close the loophole that is letting our hacker in, but this is potentially a good sign that we may not have to put up with the slowness much longer.