Server down time last night and this morning
Our server was down unexpectedly for roughly 15 hours as it was exploited and used as part of DDoS attack. As a precaution, our host (1&1) had removed it from the network and the only way we could access the server was through a serial connection. We worked with our host to resolve the issue and got the site back online.
Note that while the server was down, no games were able to use the alias feature or check the validation on an Ultimate license.
In the event of any future server down instances, you can continue to connect with each other by using your external IP address if your users have Full, Lite or Ultimate licenses. You can find it on the screen before you load your campaign. Give this out to your players and have them connect to it instead of to your normal alias.
We apologize for the inconvenience. We are going to continue monitoring and tweaking things on the server to prevent or limit any future attacks.