Server fire knocks AFI Fest offline

On Monday there was a fire in an underground bunker in Vancouver Canada that houses the server for AFI FEST's submission system. As the final deadline is a week away, the timing was pretty bad for us. However it was worse for Outfest which is going on now and went completely dark. Additionally I heard that Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival was knocked down for their first day of sales. It's pretty funny to think that a part of the internet fell down. It's back up and running now but you can read the angry thread over on the Peer 1 message board here.