Just wanted to let everyone know that we are experiencing some kind of outage at our data center hosting The Mothership and all Vidown sites. Trying to see if it's a network issue right now, but it might be something to do with the power systems or the local grid.

I happen to be away for the next several hours so I'm working by phone right now. Just hang loose and I'll let everyone know when the systems are back online.

Thanks for your patience.

When i first saw this thread title, i thought it was "Outrage at TheMothership"

So the news of an outage seemed a bit more boring in comparison! Still i hope you get things fixed soon.

That is EXACTLY what I thought!!!

I was looking forward to some juicy scandal.

Everything is backup and running as near as I can tell. Seems the power company came onto the property this morning while I was away and changed out our old power meter for a shiny new "smart" meter. In the process, they must have caused a ground fault that took out a power component feeding our networking rack. Everything was up and running, but there was no internet connection for most of the day.

^THIS