Well, when I wrote about this handy utility to see if your site was really down, little did I know that I'd really need to know it right away:

Hmmm, could it be the hosting company:

Well, yes it is. I am soooo disappointed in cari.net right now - years of great service and then a very very bad week.

So I give them a call and here is my conversation:

Me: Can you give me a status?

The Guy: Not really, all the network guys are downstairs with the vendor reps so there is nobody to ask.

Me: The vendors are there?

The Guy: Yes, the outage started in one part of the network and has been rolling over our data centers for the last few hours.

Me: Great.

The Guy: Don't worry, they're calling in everyone they can find to come help.

Me: Somehow that is not so reassuring.

I have a nice long post about Google, Digg, Page Rank Penalties, and why we all need a diversification strategy away from the top few social networking and bookmarking sites. But I have to go call all our affected customers (not everything is on Cari.Net - I am professionally paranoid) and tell them what is going on.