The thing is they did warn us there will be server down times, if you look at forum more carefully you would see that they are transferring the data base to another server or something like that.
Jano
Server hardware change
Hi players, we are currently moving to a newer and better server hardware, during this period there will be downtimes for web, updater and game server, due to DNS and IPs changes, the whole move could take up to 3 days