It's using FastCGI, and the site is built with Mephisto. There are just a few articles and nothing crazy like image uploading.
The first thing I do is 'killall -usr1 dispatch.fcgi', but that usually results in a 'no process killed' message. I killall a few more times, just because. ps usually does not show a .fcgi process, so there's really nothing to kill.
I wait a little bit, and then poof, the site is back.
What's happening, what else do I need to be doing other than the killall? Do I just need to run mongrel? This doesn't happen on my site that uses 2 mongrel instances. But that seemed like overkill for a few mephisto articles.