@slush: Sorry to drag you into this forum and onto a new thread for this one. '^^ Here is all the diagnostics I managed to get while it was down.

I was unable to access:

* https://mining.bitcoin.cz
* http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332
* http://api2.bitcoin.cz:8332

From two independent locations for about an hour around 9AM UTC.

Annoyingly, http://bitcoin.cz worked just fine all the time.

I disagree with @tungsten by the way... you have been doing a fine job from my point of view and there is no need to be an arse and throw a fit over a single network failure reported by a single user.

@nixu: I am slush-exclusive, ergo, no fall-backs. I am mining for fun, not profit. So I will stick with what works and the people I think deserves some computational power for their pool.