Firstly we'd like to appologise for the recent extended downtime. I'm sure some of you expected the worst but it was just a series of unfortunate circumstances that led up to it. I can assure you it was not a sign of impending doom or the fact that we're going to shut down anytime soon.

We run regular DB backups to make sure we can restore things without too much data loss in case of a catastrophic failure. The script takes the DB offline makes the backup and starts everything back up.
It just so happpened that on this ocasion the script failed the last step and the person who mantains MTV's infrastructure was away for the weekend and was unable to fix it. We're all just people that dedicate their free time to MTV and while we do try our best, sometimes these things happen.

We'll be looking into the issue to figure out a solution to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

Cheers
MTV Staff

I am afraid that something really bad happened. When I see this news on MTV, i got some relief.