Two of our community have been taken down for the count. http://www.pagunblog.com/thebitchgirls and http://www.countertopchronicles.com are both offline currently because Bitter was trying to do some housekeeping by deleting some old databases and it seemed to scrozzle every blog she had registered.
UPDATE: I suddenly realized how she could fix the problem. Looks like they are both in the process of coming back up. There are certainly advantages to doing your own hosting, but Bitter’s blog can’t be taken down by a power outage :)
For the record, the process I used to set them up never should have connected them to that particular database. In one case, following the exact same process, it didn’t connect the other blog to it. I’m confused as to why that happened, but at least I’m dating someone smart enough to think about how to get around the system.
I hope there are daily/hourly backups of the database.
I back mine up every day and sftp it offsite. Probably much to my friend Jason’s annoyance :)