Quote Originally Posted by Dustin_W View Post
Are these down times common?
No. This level of downtime is pretty unusual.

You just unknowingly picked a bad day to start. Normally servers only go down every few weeks or months for patches, and usually only for a few hours. This was a unique case of them shuffling entire servers and data centers around which is why the servers were down for so long, and presumably why they went back down again for emergency maintenance so quickly.