Got this from our company last week and assume it has to do with the outages:

“The Boston Network Upgrade is done for the night. All of the work is not yet complete, so we will probably schedule a night next week to finish up the work. The network is now much more resilient to DOS attacks and will have better flow during peak hours.”

thanks for the information...
...was getting a bit jittery and nihilistic.

on a plus side i did use this time to complete some superbly procrastinated papers.
what did people do?

*mumble*

Went and... played the Rune single player...

What, sad, moi?

i took my aggression out on people in the other Arenas, boy did i feel better after that. ahhh

On a rare note, got in touch with the admin via telephone; they're waiting to hear back from the datacenter on the status of our machine, but we should be up and running shortly.