Why do I say "it was" and "it had"? Because it's down, and possibly permanently. Here's the message Lowtax posted:
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Lowtax wrote:
CAIS had a power outage, causing all the servers to go offline. When the servers came back online again, we found out that the power outage had corrupted the SCSI disk for SA, and now the server can't even read it. I also found out that somebody had swiped an admin password / hacked the forum server and made "minor" changes to the forums. Forums, and SA, will be down indefinitely. Don't bother emailing me, as the mail server was using the hard disk that was corrupted, so that's destroyed too. Hopefully some of the data can be recovered and I won't have lost the last couple months of news updates. The joys of running this stupid waste of a website are far too fucking many to list. Don't hold your breath for either SA or SA's forums to come back any time soon.
Contacting Lowtax for more information turned up this response:
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Yeah, it's really that bad. The hard disk is 100% fried, so the news system is completely dead and all the latest updates for the past few weeks are gone.
I don't know if I have the energy to start everything up again and keep going through this. It might've been the proverbial last straw.......With everything that's happened lately regarding SA... well, actually since I even started up SA, I'm just sick of it all. Strings of bad luck aren't traditionally supposed to last for two years, so I'm just assuming God's trying to tell me that my website sucks...
...Thanks for the well wishes.
This is a sad day.... 
[ 06-24-2001: Message edited by: Drysart ]
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"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Originally posted by Fazumzen Fastfist:
Who can have such a terrible streak of internet death in one year? It's like the boy who cried wolf...
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to run a popular website. Something is always breaking, or your network is collapsing, or you can't afford the server costs, and you try to juggle all of this in your spare time when you could be outside having a life or something.
His ICQ pranks were just plain hilarious... not to mention the game reviews.
<<packs his bags>>
Wait, where the heck am I gonna go?
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