It sucks for me too, as I have no backup pool now. Let's hope my primary won't go offline. However I have a lot of confidence in the pool operator. He's probably unable to restart the server now for whatever reasons. Let's hope he gets back soon.

edit: oh, and I was paid correctly (daily) back when it was still up. It makes no sense for the operator to run with our money, as it's max. 1 day worth of our mining work. He could get a constant fee if this keeps working, which is probably more.