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It seems to be up right now in "read only mode"

That is probably a good lesson for incident response... have a plan to get a subset of your functionality that services most of your users up and running quickly and then bring up the more complex stuff that is less commonly used.

The last time I remember SO being down, it was because someone entered a unhealthy amount of whitespace somewhere. I'm curios what caused it this time.

Aaaaand it up again for me.

Cause was our primary SQL server BugChecked :-( Doing a full internal write up now, and expediting a SQL maintenance window for tomorrow so we can run some memory checks on the system that crashed.

Funny: the error message says "integer divide by 0", so it's basically stack overflow error.

Since when does a divide by zero error push too many items onto the stack?

Stack overflow down