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Democratic Underground is temporarily closed while we upgrade our servers. In order to better accomodate the high level of traffic to our website, we are currently implementing a significant (and costly) hardware upgrade. We hope that these new servers will give us the necessary power to grow and improve our website throughout this election year, and to handle unexpected traffic spikes. There is no ideal time to do a large upgrade like this. We have deliberately chosen Super Bowl Sunday, because we expect a significant number of our visitors to be offline watching the game. The upgrade began around 5:30PM ET (2:30PM PT). We expect that this upgrade will take somewhere between three and six hours to complete. If there are significant problems, then it could possibly take much longer.

They can't even read a clock, can they. I copied this at 4:19 CST (5:19 EST).

we are currently implementing a significant (and costly) hardware upgrade. We hope that these new servers will give us the necessary power to grow and improve our website throughout this election year, and to handle unexpected traffic spikes. There is no ideal time to do a large upgrade like this.

I guess their last batch of hamsters got fatigued, and they're greasing the wheels again

Seriously, haven't they heard of clustering, and sequential upgrades. I brought 10 new servers online after Katrina, and my total downtime was less than 5 minutes ( an unexpected reboot due to an overloaded UPS ).