Somewhere around 12:19pm PST (give or take a millisecond), the database server (MySQL) for all our sites fainted.

I’m on it. Watch this space.

Update: 12:30pm

It’s up and running. I’d like to state that I did something extraodrinary, but I’d just started kicking the tires when it revived and bounced back to work without a murmur of explanantion. Okay, MySQL server, if that’s the way you’d like to handle it. I see how you are.