The source of the problem is simply an overwhelming number of user connections. Nothing was broken or malfunctioning, but both our web servers and the database were running at the maximum number of connections.

This may be due to large numbers of buffered results, the faster speed of crunching through the new smaller protein, or more than likely a combination of both. Looking through the logs it seems that the connections are starting to level out to a nice balance, so hopefully most of the people have flushed their results, or at least enough have gone through to not constantly overload our resources.

In the meantime, if you cannot connect, please wait a bit and try again later.

As for the grace period for old results, it is extended so that the 24 and 48 hour rules will apply anew starting at 12:00 pm EST today (18/02/2004). Try not to flush enormous amounts of data at once, as that prevents other users from obtaining any connections. If at all possible, upload at some evenly balanced intervals.

We will be keeping an eye on the resources, but feel free to let us know if any new errors start popping up.