I took the money and ran, closed up shop, left the wife, and ran off and married Bassmaster

- Nope, but was that what you were thinking? Hehehehe
Seriously, there was a problem with the server. Unfortunately happens on rare occasions. I noticed it as soon as I was replying to the TFCTF thread that it died...
Seems to be runnig fine again.
Link - you tried to access the site when the web portion of the site was up but the underlying database engine was still being restarted. When a web server comes up it can take a short period of time to initialize all the various server components.