The firewall between our servers and the SAN storage that stores our database data experienced an issue this morning. It took awhile to sort out what was going on. We are now running on the backup firewall while they work with the vendor to figure out what failed in the primary firewall. However, these activities shouldn't impact us.

We are running the stats update right now to catch up on everything since that failed during the issue.

You are correct about the contact us. Doesn't make sense to link to a non-functional page. We will get that changed.

Thanks for your patience during the outage.

The IBM team quickly sent (right after the caffeine was activated in their bloodstreams, I suspect) updates regarding this short outage, through the official facebook and twitter WCG accounts. To be bookmarked if you haven't already done so =:)

You don't have subscribe to see tweets or Facebook posts.

But the posts on Facebook and Twitter could be more timely. I posted to both hours before there was any updates.