Server downtime

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Please use this thread to discuss the Server downtime news story on the main site.

As you may have noticed the server was down for about 3 hours this evening.  This was due to a hardware failure on the box. Since coming up I have also noticed that one of the hard disk has failed.  Luckily the server is running RAID so the data has not been lost but the server may be bought down later if I find other issues (database corruption for instance) and need to take it offline to fix.  The disk should be hot swappable so once it is replaced by our hosting provider I will re-build the array and we'll be back up with that redundancy in place.