Erm... apologies to anyone trying to submit a last-minute contest entry this weekend. But ALL our sites have been offline since late last night, due to an explosive failure (bad enough to knock walls down!) at The Planet (which claims to be the world's largest server farm) where we host some of our key services. It's affecting many thousands of other firms too.

In the interests of fairness, we'll accept further entries for at least 24 hours AFTER services are fully restored worldwide. We're not sure when this will be yet. We believe our actual servers are unaffected and it's just the power supplies and DNS for them causing problems. Could be hours... or considerably longer.

Sorry for any nuisance.

Nick