Digg effect easing up?

UPDATE: The site's breathing a bit more easily, though some features (including comments) are still throttled. Things should be peachy again soon.

My Vista article was walloped by the feedback loop that is a rising Digg score. See the discussion at http://digg.com/microsoft/100_Things_People_Are_Really_Saying_About_Wind... .

That was quite unexpected, and I apologize for the hours of outages, as well as my not having a mirror prepared. I've learned a lesson about the ferociousness of the Digg effect. For now, I was finally able to regain access and enable a throttling mechanism for many of the more power-hungry features. That will help keep the pages flowing, though visitors will see fewer features – even some basics like commenting may be disabled – as long as traffic remains heavy.

My thanks to the many visitors from Digg, Reddit, and elsewhere! I like you more than my ISP does...