And ... We Are Back

[AB Editor]

Sorry folks, there was a major power outage at our hosting firm. A very rare event - it's not supposed to happen without notice! We haven't yet got the full details of what happened, beyond "the power went off". We'll let you know more when we know more ourselves.

[THECORBYLOON]

I think you or they need to find some younger hamsters...

[pastafreak]

I thought the powers that be were on strike.
Well...everyone else is.

[Buenchico]

Stop making excuses, Ed.

We all know that you blew the money for the electricity meter top-up on scratch cards when you went down to the corner shop this afternoon ;-)

[AB Editor]

There are supposed to be two separate electricity supplies and ultimately a diesel generator backup. Perhaps they had let the diesel run low given the current prices!

[anneasquith]

Well, when I saw the site ‘ down’ I immediately thought , that’s that then . Gone .
I’ve surprised myself in having some joy, AB isn’t away yet . :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

I wonder if any of the employees there drive diesel cars...

[Rosetta]

when our electricity goes off we have to press a button on the oven to reset, have you pressed the reset button Ab Editor? If you have can you stop the cliques/spam/trolls.nice to see you around out of hours

[Gizmonster]

//// Well, when I saw the site ‘ down’ I immediately thought , that’s that then . Gone . ////

I'll admit, I thought exactly the same.
Another website similar to this one disappeared without a trace a while ago.
I still have it in my bookmarks and check on it every now and again ..... but it's gone forever :(

I don't suppose anyone here was a member of:
http://forums.xkcd.com/

[Canary42]

I was halfway through a post, but now I've forgotten it, even which thread it was in.

[Tuvok]

Phew!

[ladybirder]

SO relieved. Phew! Thank you. Gotta have a nightcap now.

[Arksided]

At first I thought my phone had gone gaga so booted up pc to check, no harm done.

[wolf63]

I didn't notice, I was sleeping :-)

[Dizmo]

Gizmonster, there are members of xkcd that still hang around on IRC, the channel is fairly big (190 users).

[Bobbisox1]

Was it? Did it? I never noticed

[Arksided]

Hi Bobbie, yea for about an hour and half last night 9:30-ish.
The good news is though they hasn’t been any reports of serious trauma, that I suspect was suffered by some ABers.

[Dizmo]

Neither did I. It's hosted by CloudFlare so I suspect they were not down for very long at all.

[Dizmo]

Ah, there you go then, about an hour and a half. I bet that was difficult for some :P

[Bobbisox1]

Hi Arky , I must have been doing other stuff :0)

[Arksided]

Be careful that almost suggests that there’s life outside of AB