Our outage earlier this week — an eight-hour outage — was NOT enemy action. We just had so much going on that the cache over-flowed and Apache/SQL failed. Our webmaster was sick and left his phone in the kitchen (normally we are back up in five minutes — he is on 24/7 call). We have fixed the cache overflow issue and it should not happen again.
HOWEVER, we want to take reliability to the next level. This includes getting several more servers, doing load balancing, and essentially making it impossible to be shut down either by enemy action or internal short-falls.
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