Useful site to see if it's your connection (or firewall) or the site itself that's having a problem: Is It Down Right Now?

Someone emailed us about their tool here: websiteplanet.com/webtools/down-or-not, although it said this site was down, but it wasn't, so I don't know.

"Is It Down Right Now monitors the status of your favorite web sites and checks whether they are down or not. Check a website status easily by using the below test tool. Just enter the url and a fresh site status test will be performed on the domain name in real time using our online website checker tool. For detailed information, check response time graph and user comments."

"Check to see if your website is down across the globe or only on your computer screen"