You really should give a detailed write up of everything that went wrong and when it went wrong when the site is back up.
Directly from twitter "We are waiting on our new ssl certificate to be sent so we can relaunch. 5-12 hrs", LOL. Here's a hint: ssl certificates are not delivered by boats. I hope your certificate doesn't get lost in its way, such a long trip.
I believe this is a lie! They use cloudflare for ssl and they dont have to wait even a second. It looks like they are probably updating their system now. That means the server is complete, or its not and they are covering up a lie.
With Cloudflare you have the option to use a general SSL cert that is shared with other people (not a good idea), or upload your own.
So are you implying that uploading your certificate is better than the other option ? In other words, do you think one of the options is better than the other ? If you are reading this and don't know this means, just get the point that using SSL this way is pointless since the site has no control over its own certificate. So many experts around..
Only the certificate file is uploaded, not the key.
You sir, are clearly not one of the experts.... stop trying to act like one. Your idiosy is simply astounding.
Your knowledge about how cloudflare operates is astounding. How do you think cloudflare inspects the traffic ? Think about it for a moment, then realize that all the data entering into your site comes encrypted BUT only until it gets to cloudflare, then it goes to plaintext so cloudflare inspects it, then gets encrypted again with the certificate you provided. Think about it a little more and then you will see that all the data leaving your site will also get to plaintext while inside cloudflare datacenter. Therefore by using cloudflare you made SSL pointless.