As many of you noticed, we had a bit of trouble keeping the site online last week. The reason for this was that a series of earthquakes damaged an underwater cable which affected all major upstream providers in Asia. At this time maintenance ships are still trying to repair the cable and there is no estimate as to when the repairs will be completed. Due to this news we will be shutting down all IDT servers in the Hong Kong data center which have been connected to the SAVVIS international ip network via a shared satellite connection since the incident. The reason for this is that we simply can't afford the $100 USD per day that the satellite connection costs. We have set up a temporary mirror in the SAVVIS data center near Boston, MA until repair work is finished and we can setup permanent mirrors. The downside to this move is that after reviewing the location of the underwater cable we realize that this will make the site unavailable to certain parts of Asia. For this we apologize but since 90% of the traffic for this site originates from North America and Europe it just doesn't make any sense economically to keep paying for the satellite connection.