Thanks team ECF for brining the site live!
Web site "outages" happen to every single web site on the internet. What we call "uptime" is never 100%. Period. Sometimes just a few minutes and sometimes for days
It seems for me, they usually happened at 2:00 AM and I was woken from a sound sleep to fix it. Not fun when that beeper blasts away and your SO
threatens to ..... /lol
In this case, I ran a trace route and ping from my crib in Las Vegas, Nevada and from other locations
throughout the world. In all cases the hardware/server responded properly so that means to simplify it, Apache and "other software stuff" aka "services" were not running. I never tried to reach the Forums via a "proxy" but that would have been another way to diagnose the issue. Naturally, I could reach all my other sites and I always test with Google. This tells me that my internet connection aka ISP is working properly.
Generally, when you ban a forum member, you don't go to the trouble of producing a 404 for the banned member so, please don't worry about that.
IMHO, extended "outages" should always be posted on Facebook so the "natives" don't go nutso. /lol /joke
/Just my 2 cents worth and I'm not a member of Team ECF.
EDITED for clarity.