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.