Our provider had it's fiber line(s) cut accidentally by the city of Vancouver (thanks!) and thus the server was off the grid for a few hours today. Things are back up and appear to be all good now. Sorry for any inconvenience!
After updates/fixes it sounds like work crews were determined to cause a problem:
"The result was the construction crews had a harder time cutting our fiber, and instead of cutting it cleanly mangled and stretched the fiber for several meters beyond the cut itself." :)
Of course they then used the downtime to perform other upgrades.....