When I said that I was about to eat a big bowl of non-blogging, I didn’t mean that I was going to turn off the website, but apparently that’s what the server thought I meant. I didn’t realize initially that the site was down because I was having unrelated DNS issues, and I thought that’s why I couldn’t access the site.
I discovered that the site was back up when I received my first notification that somebody had posted spam in the comment section.