Somehow the forums have come back before Tekheads
quote form fasthosts:
"13:00
The underlying cause of the connectivity problem experienced by some of our dedicated server customers has been identified as a hardware failure in one of our core network switches. We are working to bring the affected servers back online as quickly as possible and now anticipate that this work will be complete within the next 2-3 hours."
You would think these companies have spares just incase something like this happens