What was the reason for the recent unavilability of the forum?
Not a clue. I started a thread at GameDev.net about this, and one of those that replied said that they had to reboot the server.
It takes a week to reboot the server?
Where is the server located? In space? 
Verry good question, I searched a couple of forums but nobody knew what was going on 
// Gregof
Maybe it’s time to move the forum to a host which has a guaranteed uptime if Sun doesn’t have the resources to host it themselves in a satisfactory way. The forums being down for a week isn’t exactly good publicity for Sun.
On July 4th, it’s a Sun tradition that everyone buggers off on holiday for a week. As we all know computers are malicious and only go wrong when you’re not watching them. The rest is history…
Cas 
Ah, so it’s that bastard Murphy again