well, technically, their system was up, the certificates were just expired.
A software engineer is firing a rifle on the shooting range, but not hitting any targets. Puzzled, he puts his finger into the barrel, and pulls the trigger. Seeing as his finger is blow off, he cheerfully reports to the instructor:
- On my end the bullets are flying out, so the problem is somewhere on your end, with the target!
"Technically our site was up, just the database was down..."