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According to CountryMouse ( countrymouse), " InsaneJournal's hosting company screwed up and canceled the databases. Squeaky has a copy of them from a month ago."

Argh!

I wondered how CountryMouse knew this; her post gave me a couple more search terms, which led me to knitmeapony's report reminding folks that there's an IJ-status Twitter feed (which I should have remembered on my own -- doh!).

So the latest (smushing a few tweets together) seems to be:

It appears that I will be able to get the databases back [~11:30] This may take awhile longer. They have the drives set aside but I have to order new servers. [~13:30] May be up to 24-48 hours now [~15:30]

*sigh* Reminds me I need to get around to writing up that combination "ethical issues and the evolution of LJ" and "no site is safe (because even if the owner doesn't sell out, sie might get hit by a bus[*])" entry that's been percolating in the back of my head for about nine months.

With luck we'll see an announcement that everything's coming back online soon [knock wood]. I look forward to reading the whole story.

[*] Or get eited by hir providers.

[Posted, backdated, after the IJ outage ended.]