… before I entered a help desk ticket I remembered to check here and see that it’s a “known issue”:
Just wanted to say that I think having a status page is great and wanted to remind people to use it… 
If it was only maven repo…
Our alerting system is looking like a Tarantino movie. There’s a lot more red than it should.
Most machines are either unreachable or half-dead.
Not sure if it was a killer patch or the provider yet.
All systems are back. There was nothing I could do to fix, I suppose it’s a problem on the provider.
I raised a ticket for clarification.
We were informed that the VM hosts were patched (for meltdown/spectre) and there were some problems restarting the hosts.
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