the uk census site is still shut.

what makes me laugh is that they say

continual attempts to access the site by using the browser ‘refresh’ button will only serve to compound the problems of site access and we would be grateful if you could avoid doing this. which is precisely the problem we’ve been having with loquax lately. once something goes awry and slows your server down you get caught in a positive feedback loop whereby your usual amount of users bring the server down. our problems are slightly easier to solve than the public record office’s problems though.