I am getting frequent reconnects as well. Not sure if it's something new or just started happening this morning.

 [2014-01-14 08:48:09] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2014-01-14 08:48:09] Lost 2 shares due to stratum disconnect on pool 0
 [2014-01-14 08:48:19] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
 [2014-01-14 08:48:29] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://middlecoin.com:3333 not responding!
 [2014-01-14 08:50:08] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 512
 [2014-01-14 08:50:09] Work available from pools, resuming.
 [2014-01-14 08:50:20] Accepted 4e43ed99 Diff 837/512 GPU 1
 [2014-01-14 08:50:20] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart

I don't have a failover server set up, would it help if I add one?