Well I am happy that it took me less than 15 minutes. It felt like much longer.
Since you asked, Carlos, I'll explain exactly what went on. I was just looking for a reason
Our database is now hosted on a cloud, and I can back it up with a single click. Since the database is what holds all our posts and statistics, it's very important. Clouds are a cool new concept for the web. There are many virtual servers in a cloud, and I can expand the capabilities of our piece of that real-estate by adding more memory any time I need it. Because data is stored across multiple systems, it would take a whole lot of failures at once to put the data at risk. It's very, very cool technology.
For now it's just the database. The upcoming January is the next downtime I have planned, when I will move the rest of this to the cloud.
Edit: Oh yeah, you should use this little tag so people don't think others are crazy. I'll keep that in mind for you Carlos. Lol. Seriously, I guess I was a little caught up in the moment when I did that