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For the greater part of the day, GEC was down (not just for me, I used downforeveryoneorjustmme.com). How come?

Actually it was just for you lol......and me

My hosting provider is looking into this. It does look like there was a significant downtime event a couple of days ago. I looks like the GEC database was protected and still accurate, but some of the smaller databases may have been restored to an earlier time hense some of the odd issues some of you noticed. I'll find out what happened and see if there is anything I can do on my end to prevent it in the future.

Ok, here's what happened. My hosting provider had some major corruption of the OS on the server that hosts the GEC. They needed to restore from an emergency backup. My host backs up every six hours so we may have lost up to six hours of MGE data. This only effected a couple of users who made transactions during this rouge time. Thankfully the GEC database update was completed on the emergency backup and therefore the GEC data was not effected. It was a hardware issue with my host. Anyway, this is only the first time in five years they needed to restore a paid server because of a hardware issue. They have a very good track record and I do not foresee this problem happening again.