Hi everyone!
I'd like to give some quick explanation to those who maybe wondering why
http://www.shoutwiki.com and
http://pcsx2.shoutwiki.com in particular are as of now unreachable without any notice.
You can read about it here:
http://blog.shoutwiki.com/. This blog blames the "malfunction in our host’s datacenter" (i.e. the random unnamed ISP) and assures that the full backup of information does exist (aside from a week of updates, which are lost). It also states that the restore process is underway and everything will be online at any given moment.
I find this somewhat doubtful and I'll try to explain why. There maybe four (if not more) explanations to the current shoutwiki situation. One of them is that the blog telling the truth and no worries are justifiable. The second is that the blog is lying and there's no backup in existence (it's the most probable state of affairs in my believe) (in this case Jack Phoenix (see blog) is/was misinformed about the gravity of the situation). The third is that the backup does exist but shoutwiki is not able/do not want to recover from this "malfunction" (considering it wasn't that popular), which is also very probable.
And the last reason I can think of is kind of conspiracy theory and is unlikely to be the truth but it still not that impossible. Some shoutwiki employee could be paid by some pissed off and overall dishonest company (that would be wikia.com) to set up the whole situation. Business is business after all; and the mentioned company is a business which it has shown more that once (you can understand what I'm talking about by searching for Anti Wikia Alliance or by reading the comments to this blog post
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blo...s_New_Look).
On the side note, being party a system admin myself I cannot believe someone can be so careless not to backup the data (I backup all my company's databases once in 2 hours and all users' documents/mail every night) or to backup it idly once a week. It must be very unpleasantly shameful for them to lose credibility this way.
If the matter will not be resolved in a positive way, the wiki is unlikely to recover (losing some months of the new contents and updates is a tragedy but to have no other place to be hosted on is a full stop). I know that there are many (?) wikifarms out there but I'm not willing to endure yet another painful transition to the old contents (but I'll help anyone who may want to do it and will definitely contribute to the result).
This is the sum of information with my thoughts on the matter. I'll keep you informed on how this situation will unfold.