Black Monday - Site down again

My apologies to those of you not reading by RSS. APLawrence.com was down and out for several hours on Monday, February 9th, 2009. Amusingly (yes, I'm easily amused) we were down last year on February 11th - so this is now an annual event. Note that Feb 9,2009 and Feb 11, 2008 are both the second Monday of the month; going forward the second Monday of February will be known as Black Monday.

Cuz it's like pretty dark when the site isn't running.

Whatever happened, it wasn't minor: I entered a ticket at 5:05 and at 6:26 I got notified that the issue had been "escalated to a specialized group". That probably means a hardware crash so that in turn means backups need to be located and restored - that could take a while. Last year they restored the wrong backups - somebody accidentally restored backups from February of a previous year. That was a pretty mess.

This time we were down about 4.5 hours - not to bad, I guess - it was all day last year. We're up again and nothing seems to be missing..