The server was down…Or something…
Does this happen often?
Every night around this time.
Yep. Every single day. They’re backing up the files.
BACKING UP FILES???
DAMN THEIR EFFICIENCY TO HELL! IT INTERRUPTED MY POSTING 
I think this thread was th’ latest of many, many such threads on the regular back-up of the SDMB, SmileyDeath. Have a look in ATMB if you need to find out stuff about the running of the board.