Luckily I wasn't really affected by this - I had about 30 mins of downtime when the whole thing initially went down and that was only to one server.
One of the things that Nick has said would be addressed was the lack of replies on the forum. In my opinion, one of the things that sets really good hosts apart from the rest is their support and their communication with customers when there is a problem. Now, The Planet in the US when their entire power supply went bang was posting things hourly and saying we will post an update within the hour. This might have been simply "There is nothing more to report. We don't expect any change within the next two hours and our next update will be then." This keeps people up to date so they can have something to tell their clients and also helps keep people off the back of the support team - If this had been done, even though it was a Sunday maybe the support team wouldn't have been snowed under?
Anyway, I'm hoping everyone has got their sites pretty much back up now. I remember the last outage and my file system got corrupted... It wasn't pretty but support helped me get everything back up in the end - the joy of my first all nighter!
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