Actually there is a bit of an eery story about the crash. For those of you in the mod ranks and who have been on the site for some time know that Art Grabow "GrnBrt" recently passed away. This crash occured last night at 8:16PM EST. Keep in mind this sort of thing is VERY rare to happen out of the blue like this.

Right before the crash I saw I had a private message so I clicked in to PM's. I saw it was from Nathan (aka Plane Insane - senior community moderator here) and the PM title was just "Art". I clicked it to read the message and the site froze solid. That was 8:16PM EST. Further investigation revealed a very, very nasty crash of the DB which required rolling back to the mornings backup image. When I emailed nathan last night he said he had literally just completed setting up lightfoot to fill Art's shoes right before he sent me that "Art" PM. I never got to read that "Art" PM as that was the moment the system blew up. I couldn't help but wonder if Art was just letting me know he was still hanging around here....