Centrica: Server fault on Wednesday caused Hive to crash on the Tuesday. Yes, yes, that's what we said

App services has now thawed, and of course energy supplier is very, very sorry

Centrica has pinned last week's 36-hour freeze of its Hive app estate - the one that coincided with the plunging temperatures in Britain - on a server fault it claims happened, er, a day after the outage actually began."