Hi there! Our site was down for about one week. The reason is our hoster hosting.ua had fire in their data-center! About 20% of servers are dead as well as the back-ups. But we are lucky – server with our blog did not receive damages.

Conclusion:

• whatever your hoster says to you, you should aslo make back-ups by your own
• you should have some reserved hosting for such cases
• you should register your domain at another registrant instead of your hoster, to be able manage it by yourself even if your hoster is down
• you should use some service that will be checking “is your site up or down”, if it’s not – notify you (SMS, E-Mail)
• and the main one: don’t worry, everything can be fixed