Thanks anyhow b*kat.
It may still be a useful place if anyone wants to bookmark it - As it should be viewable regardless or not if you have a facebook account.
It dawned on my last night, that although I knew the server was undergoing maintenance, that I had no way of informing members what was going on and how soon we should be back up.
This may all be a m00t point anyhow as Ive upgraded to a new platform which no longer relies on just the one server and has much better resiliency than traditional hosting, but even so, it still makes sense to have an external source for service status messages.