At a little before 4:30 this afternoon, Northwest Link‘s main router crashed. It took over ten minutes for them to restore operation, and during that time the T1 to Entercom Portland was useless. Hence no database for this site, no IRC chat, no streaming audio for those three stations that still do streaming, and a host of other useful functions were cut off.

I suppose that ten or fifteen minutes isn’t that bad in the great scheme of things, but until Invite.net upgrades their MySQL server I have to rely on a machine at work to host the database. I don’t like being dependent on Entercom hardware to keep this site operational.