The site was down for half an hour to replace the machine's aging CD-ROM drive with a (only slightly less aged) CD-RW drive - given what CD-R blanks cost these days, using last year's backups as coasters seems relatively cheap...
Like Douglas Adams famously wrote in "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish", we apologise for the inconvenience. I have no mile-high fiery letters to write this, so these pixels will have to do.