Well, I found out from Savage that the patcher went down, his attempts to reboot the server failed, he had to get his host company to kick the server for him, which is why it took so long.
Edit: Here's an exerpt from my chat log with Savage.
[23:11:49] <06@savage|IRC> Yeah, we fell behind dealing with a server problem yesterday.
01[23:12:09] <06@Siss|irc> Siss: Ah, I was wondering about that, probably should have mentioned that detail now that I think of it.
01[23:12:20] <06@Siss|irc> Siss: So, what was the problem exactly?
[23:13:23] <06@savage|IRC> The patcher went down. Wouldn't restart. Had to reboot the hardware, but the hardware wouldn't respond to remote reboot or power off/on. Had to have the hosting company eventual kick it.
There's what happened to the servers.