The board seemed to have been dead on my side since around Friday (CET), loading the page took forever and ended with a "can't connect" error. OK, happens some times, but now that I can connect again it seems others were just merrily posting away -- did anybody else experience the same or do I need to kick my ISP?

Exact same error bro. It wasn't just you.

Same here.
It was up for a short while in between though.

There was a wrinkle. I will be doing an OS upgrade soon.

Phew, and I thought I had to convince my ISP's tech support that they had a routing error

Just ping me via email (my username @dumpshock.com) if there is an issue; I check email regularly and will check any issues at my next opportunity.

Wait, OS Upgrade? O.o
Are you running dumpshock from your own home? o.O

No. We have a dedicated VM at a cloud provider. We are currently on x86 Linux and moving to x64 Linux.

Ah.
More RAMS.

A privatly-run website going down for a few days is nothing where I feel the need to pester the admin.

I was only wondering why others had been able to post when I couldn't access the site, but it seems I just missed the times when it was up intermittently.