I emailed Betsy Aoki (the MSDN community program
manager) who emailed me back saying that they are facing
some hardware issues and that they are working on this.
Quote:
"Last week, the problem seemed less severe but
this time it looks like hardware failure, and not a
result of the workspaces upgrade or anything else [...]
we do have backups and our ops teams are working to
resolve this, so you will see Gotdotnet come back up.
It’s just going to take some time to fix. "
Minh T. Nguyen.
My suggestion would be to follow Dare and get off of GDN
workspaces. There are a number of better Open Source
communities out there. Check one of them out.
Hmmm......
/me wonders:
and they run gdn on what? one server? what about a web
farm so that one server having a hardware problem is not
taking the whole site down?
My user samples were off-line last night too. They seem
to be OK now tho.