Ok guys, I am home from work and I want to give everyone an update.  Last night, I was waiting for Bter to go live.  At about 1:00am I decided it was time to go to bed.  I woke at about 6:30am and checked Bter, then the forum, and then the pool.  AHHHHHH! The server is setup to run a few cronjobs(linux term for automated task) every minute.  I also have a few other tasks that I carry out once a day.  At somepoint, a cronjob stopped working which shuts down the pool.  This is a security feature that functioned better than I actually intended.  Needless to say the pool went offline.  I was unaware since I was sleeping.  It took about 5 min for me to get it back up and running, but as most of you know, txs were stuck for a period of time.  Without miners, txs will not confirm.  Everything is working great now, but we need to avoid this from happening again.  I would like two things:

1. For someone to start a backup pool using MPOS.
2. For everyone to understand how to solo mine, should this ever happen again.  

SOLO MINING TUTORIAL:
1.If you go to your wallet, you will see a tab labeled Help, click it!
2.Click Debug window
3.Click on console
4.Type setgenerate true 8 or setgenerate true 16 - this is for dual core computer - if you have quad, six, or eight you can even type 32
5. Type getmininginfo and you should see a number next to hashpersec, this is your hashrate.
6. Your are now mining the blockchain