Echonetdaily is back online after being off the air for most of Tuesday.
For those who didn’t get their regular email alert, we do apologise: it was as frustrating for us as it was for you.
We are reliably informed that an anonymous group of proto-fascist hackers were not the cause of our outage, much to the dismay of the conspiracy theorists among us.
The more prosaic reason is that a server network that was the backbone of our system completely failed without notice.
We are assured that this is an extremely rare occurrence and unlikely to happen again.
We thank our readers and advertisers for their patience during these difficult and frustrating few hours.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
