My pool just had some sort of hiccup with the blockupdate cron, Not sure why it failed but apparently had trouble fetching a new block from the daemon. I'll be keeping an eye on it for a couple of hours and tweaking some settings. Not sure if any miners noticed anything or not, but I did verify that nobody's payouts disappeared and we're still chewing up blocks, so hopefully this was just a fluke. It might have something to do with the fact that various pool components are located on different physical machines. This is by far the most critical pool I have running so I have it set up this way to avoid overload situations. My dream is to have a giant loud server rack sitting right next to me as I hack away.. One day.