Due to a database mishap on June 27, Montreal's CouchSurfing.com – a "hospitality exchange" of professional overnighters both offering and looking for couch space – went dark until July 6.

However, despite founder Casey Fenton's doom-and-gloom prognosis that the site was permanent toast, it's back online and continueing with a rebuild, user profile by user profile.

The site allows those with couch space to spare in more than 205 countries to pair up with those looking for a place to crash (ha ha). Fenton said in a July 13 press release that after the crash, he was besieged by requests to not abandon the site totally but to piece it back together, as well as offers of help to do so. "I was overwhelmed by all the support coming in," Fenton said. "I was reminded that the CS community is not about the data, or just about surfing couches. It's about the network and friendships that had been created. The data was dead, but the community was still very much alive." Brings a tear to the eye, don't it?

CouchSurfing.com had 90,000 user profiles pre-crash, according to the press release, and most of those are back now – only 11,000 profiles, many of which were abandoned, were lost in the mayhem.