You may have noticed or at least heard about the 10-day downtime that we suffered a few weeks ago, right? Until now I haven’t provided details on what caused it. Let me explain it a little.

DS is hosted on a dedicated server. That means our site runs on one exclusive computer. We have our own hard disk, processor, RAM, DVD-RW drive (lol) and USB slots (lol more). One fateful day, our hard disk broke down. The crew at the webhost tried to restart it, but the computer refused to detect the disk. Uh oh.
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