exactly ... you should have a game status page hosted on a remote server on another domain so that when there is any kind of outage, you can communicate to the community what is happening. there should also be a policy on what to do about a long unwcheduled outage, perhaps something like anything over 2 hours stops the game clock, and causes an automatic retart at a later, annonced time with a cooresponding extension of the set's duration ...

just my 2 cents