During the early hours on Monday (around 12:30) the backup script encountered some difficulties and took the forums down. When I attempted to resolve the issue, Morphy's law kicked in connectivity with the collocation centre was lost. I wasn't able to restore service to the forums until about 7:30PT.
All should be back to normal now, but if not, please let me know.
Fred
It looks like some server problems started about 12:30 am on Monday, September 29th. I was alerted to the issues about 3am and it seems that in the time I was looking at the issues, some issues arose with the ISP as well. Both issues are currently being looked into.