hmm..slush must be fscking around with the server cause it keeps on going "down for maintenance"...
wonder if this is the planned long polling upgrade...
I don't think so... this is the 3rd day when the server drops at around this same hour. It will pick up in half an hour or so. slush said he will ask the provider what's going on. Hope he finds out.
I think you're right cause now the server is responding as expected. What an odd issue. Could all the miner be overloading his provider's backbone links? But that would not explain why this is happening regularly at a set time.