Mt. Gox emergency maintenance despite "market cool down" halt

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They implied they might take some servers down to add more to their cluster.

How can someone "imply" an emergency maintenance? That would make it a planned maintenance. The servers were supposed to be operational so that people could change/place orders before trading resumes.

It's like "emergency surgery." Your doctor can say, "We're scheduling you for emergency surgery in two days or that aneurism could burst and kill you. In the mean time don't so anything stressful."

So the emergency maintenance is maintenance that, if put off, could result in the complete collapse of the system so better to do it right away and have an annoying but hopefully brief impact.

Great how they have nothing on their home page to indicate this.

That's because the emergency maintenance is now over. This is one reason why I am opposed to posting short outages to HN; they tend to be over before the story falls off the front page.

During the emergency maintenance the homepage had no status info. The price at the top of the homepage was the last price before trading stopped.

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