<snip the parts that I won't comment on at this time, which are the
actual points of your mail I guess :P>
> We did recently have a scheduled outage of 4.5 hours but that
> was from midnight to 4:30 while we upgraded some power facilities.
You do realise that's the middle of the working day, right? :P
I'm not saying that it's bad, it's definitly not. I'm just saying that
"middle of the night" really doesn't exist in this kind of operations.
Something that should always be considered.
//Magnus