Originally posted by ScorpionSometimes Caffie/CaffieNET goes down, or at least SMWC's servers; when they go down for you, they're most likely down for everybody. When that happens, just sit tight and wait until they come back online, they eventually will.
I don't know what kind of hardware Kieran uses to run the servers, but I'm sure that hardware needs breaks every now and again.
Its almost always a software failure. Upon occasion there is down time for upgrades, but those are reasonably rare. The only exception to this may be network connectivity, but thats usually not the hardware on Kieran's end failing rather his (parents) ISP. Every caffie service runs on the same server (albeit compartmentalized), so if they all go down at the same time that may suggest hardware or network failure. If one or more stays online it was most likely a software issue, as was the case this time.