The server that hosted OVDB got rebooted and admin was away. It was using full disk encryption so it had to be booted manually. At that point admin was busy / away or something and had already been having thoughts of shutting it down. Basically he just let it go. This was November of 2011 or so. Some of the old OVDB members came to SR forum which is why there's a subforum for that now (look all the way at the bottom). OVDB admin has been posting as kmfkewm on this forum.