For those who tried reaching my site yesterday from 3PM on, there was a power outage at the Eastern Washington Campus that was caused by a rainstorm (possibly lightning was the cause). All info on this site is safe, however, and daily backups are still being made just in case anything goes too awry. Having my own server to look after actually makes it easier on me when something does go wrong, because I know exactly how to fix it, and in this case, it was as simple as pushing on the power button .

And apparently, even if there was a backup supply, it would’ve needed to last for 20 or more minutes, since that’s how long the outage was. My old supply wouldn’t have lasted me 5 minutes.