DB is fine - and is backed up in various ways ... so at worst, only a part of day or so of data would likely ever be lost - and that's assuming a really bad crash, etc were to occur.

In this instance, the server never crashed, but rather ran out of memory (a problem we've been aware of for awhile; we've been restarting some processes daily manually - lately that step was skipped and thus what happened today; fixed now with a cron entry) and was unable to serve more requests; VB is setup to ignore requests about a certain load level to reduce the chance of DB corruption during server problems.

Ron