Late last night (at an unknown time) the MySQL server we use to host the databases randomly decided to die out, and refuse all attempts we made to access it, oddly except from the site’s control panel. DreamHost told us that the issue has been fully resolved, and it seems to be. However, we lost some of the data from yesterday (we previously thought that the damage was contained to the forum; but the machine locations that were added yesterday were also gone), so some of your scores may be gone. We deeply apologize for the possible loss, although we were glad that we do indeed keep backups, although the server picked a bad time to die out, as it died quite a good bit of time after the backup was created. I’m working on a backup system that should (hopefully) keep the backups only an hour or two behind, just in case this happens again. I’m also working to set up an offsite replicated MySQL server, with extra redundancy for the lulz. Please e-mail one of us at dririan@groovestats.com or rawinput@groovestats.com, or send us a message on the forum.

PS: I did restore all the changes to regions and machine locations that were lost, so no worries about that; it’s all good. But please do thank poor Tiza, for adding all those machines then having them just vanish from our database.