> We're all technical folks here. What possible reason could there be to close the site every Sunday morning for 12 hours? Sometimes the reason isn't always pu

> We're all technical folks here. What possible reason could there be to close the site every Sunday morning for 12 hours? Sometimes the reason isn't always purely technical. Especially in the government, there could be bureaucratic reasons that cause really un-intuitive behavior that's pretty much unheard of in the commercial world. They could be exercising migrating to their COOP site and when asked "how long does it take for the site to FULLY come up?" the contractor said 12 hours to be on the safe side. If you account for things like acceptance testing done by government employees, 12 hours is unfortunate but not unreasonable for the government.