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Yesterday during a routine scan of Stevie's hard drive an error was detected on the partition primarily used for storage of system log files. Even though this is a non-critical data area and losing all of the log files wouldn't crash the server, Stevie was shutdown to fix the filesystem errors. The process was successful and fixing the problem only resulted in two hours of downtime. However, shortly after the server came back online it became obvious that there was also a problem with the filesystem that is used to store temporary files. At this point the decision was made to do a full system scan to make sure that there weren't any other problems that would show up down the line. Unfortunately full system scans take a very long time to complete, and that is the reason for the downtime overnight last night. We are happy to announce that the full system scan fixed the problems detected on the /tmp partition and the /var partition, and everything seems to be fully functional now. If you notice anything else unexpected happening please let us know. It should also be noted that this is very uncommon for Stevie to experience this kind of downtime. In fact, before the two reboots yesterday Stevie hadn't even been restarted in nearly 200 days. As is clearly indicated on our server monitors Stevie has had 99%+ uptime for the last six months, which is better than most paid hosting services.