I always check the twitter when I can't access. There will be people saying they can't access within a few minutes of going down. https://twitter.com/thedonalddotwin.
In this instance it was:
"All of our Win sites experienced a 50 minute downtime due to an issue with the system that routes traffic to our frontend servers.
me too, I found this site the day after election day and there is no better site.
I know right? I thought it was my internet. Did Google try and take us offline?
I always check the twitter when I can't access. There will be people saying they can't access within a few minutes of going down. https://twitter.com/thedonalddotwin.
In this instance it was:
"All of our Win sites experienced a 50 minute downtime due to an issue with the system that routes traffic to our frontend servers.
This was not a DDoS, nor was it a traffic issue." Taken from this stickied mod post