My brand new iPad air has been completely unresponsive and needed to be "hard restarted" twice. What's up with that?

3 days ago, I purchased a new iPad air. I've installed a few apps on it and have generally just been playing with it and figuring out the OS. Yesterday, while trying to wake it up, I noticed the device was completely unresponsive, the screen would not even turn on. I executed a hard restart (held down home and power for 10 sec). That seemed to remedy it for the time being but it just happened again. I'm concerned that this will be a recurring issue and will possibly degenerate into a bigger problem for my new iPad. Is this a known issue? If so is it a hardware or software related problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

My first reaction is, "Yuck!"
I participated not too long ago in this forum in a discussion about music on web pages. All people with any real experience were pretty much against it, unless there was some control that would allow someone to turn it off and on, with the default being set to "off." And, of course, I don't know how it would play with assistive technolology for blind persons (were I to add sounds to one of my web pages, my sister, who is blind, would kill me, I think).
You would need Ogg Vorbis audio in order for it to be playable in all browsers and I should mention that I had a real nightmare dealing with video on this website because I had not told Apache that Ogg is a supported MIME type. Firefox would not play the Ogg video until I edited the .htaccess file thusly:
AddType audio/ogg .oga
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType application/ogg .ogg
I would imagine you would have to do that on any Apache server. Until you did this, your audio might be playable in some browsers and not playable in others, like Firefox.
But be careful to not totally distract people with your audio files. Audio on a website brought up in the workplace is usually a clue to others nearby that the person is not working for the company. The first thing that happens is that the page is immediately closed when audio starts coming out of the speakers.

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