Why was vb.org down

[TheLastSuperman]

Yes & No ^

There's always more than one way to look at things:

- Most feel that you should normally notify members, so they don't try to visit when its down and that way less of an inconvenience to said members. *This is the typical way of doing things, lets their members know what is going on and generally viewed as more professional.
- There are some who prefer not to notify the masses, their member base etc and in-turn they are not letting anyone such as a hacker "bad guy" etc be aware of when an upgrade or similar is going on (at the time an upgrade is performed the /install/ folder needs to be present and they could at the time the upgrade is scheduled attempt to disrupt the site). *I find myself doing this for many clients and more so in the late-night hours i.e. after 12am my local time (or theirs usually).
- Sometimes the tech performing maintenance is not the site webmaster or similar and does not have access to place up an announcement, this is dependent upon if the action taking place on the site i.e. the maintenance requires thew forum to be disabled or not, if so then they should have access and could then place up a notice/announcement regarding the downtime - if the site is not required to be offline then the server administrator may perform the maintenance and the site simply show as down or not be accessible sporadically during said maintenance.

So normally yes, you make a new Notice or Announcement however if you're a company or more security prone than others you would not announce it and simply place up a notice with enough info to warrant their return to the site but one that also gives enough info for them to know its down temporarily and will return. Then again as we see in the third scenario I listed, there may not be a way for notice to be given (despite any notice can be given ahead of time, situational at best in this scenario).