I've repaired servers for a number of years, and I know what goes on in the server room (my sympathies to the personnel within..;) Beleive me, taking servers down is not something you do lightly. And if possible, you ALWAYS announce it, because the person you cut off without warning just might be the one that controls the budget, etc.
Rosity has (last time I looked) about 10 servers, 9 of which are running on Apache, and one on Windows. Wonder which one failed?
I ran into the problem Saturday, night, and on into early Sunday morning. Couldn't logon, timed out..did a ping on www.renderosity.com, and got a response time of 75ms (on average), but a TTL of 45, which means no connection, long story short..;) Since I can't buy anything, I guess I'm not 'special' enough to have the electronic bouncers let me in..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)