Fall down go Boom!

[Stanistani]

(Copied here to make sure people read it)
Yesterday Fatcow, our web hosting service for Often Inspired, had a complete power failure in their data center.

As a result, this site and hundreds of thousands of other sites went dark.

When power was restored, there were data integrity issues, some network gear didn't work, and they had to restore a lot of servers from backups.

The outage was roughly twenty hours long.

As site administrator, I apologize for this outage during NaNoWriMo.

I confidently point all my available fingers, plus a few I borrowed, at Fatcow.

They really pulled a cowflop this time.

Note: had the outage continued just two more hours, I was going to set up a replacement server (I DO have backups from yesterday) and email everyone where to go get their stuff.