First of all I have to agree (limited) with Limitless. The man himself should have posted something as soon as we went down and simply said "We are down. We will return in hours or days." But don't expect much more than a notice in the way of updates or communication. And do expect that this is more than a hardware outage. DPR polled everyone as to whether the changes she had made were working. The resounding answer was "No!" Most likely a new set of servers with better load balancing and separate databases are in order, hopefully along with a redundant system for compromise or failure. If that kind of build-out is taking place, DPR couldn't telegraph it because the activity in the physical world and the Internet routing world could tip off LE or at least give clues or leave traces to be followed. I think another slowdown occurred and DPR said enough is enough and pulled the plug to move over to a new setup that had been in the works for some time. Now when you undertake such a thing, coordinating the combination of facility, IP, hardware, software and data ain't no small thing. Add to that secrecy's need for minimization of hands on deck, uncharted territories of equipment and controls, and Murphy's Law (things WILL go wrong), and you have a VERY busy DPR who knows that once everything is back up and running, hopefully smoother than before, he will be a hero again and any rumblings of mutiny will be quickly forgotten. All I have to say to DPR and the mods, admins and other assorted angels is: Go get 'em tigers! (: Modzi